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Aion statue from Wahlheim

Sandstone statue from Wahlheim, Germania Superior, depicting a naked torso encircled by two serpents holding their heads towards the figure's face — the characteristic iconography of the leontocephaline Aion.
Aion statue from Wahlheim

Aion statue from Wahlheim
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2199 ↔ CIMRM 1298

Statue in sandstone (H. 0.73) found at Wahlheim in 1896. Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum.

MMM II 507 No. 242bis and fig. 457; Sixt in WsdZ (Korr.) 1897, 1ff and fig.; Mettler, Wahlheim, 9 and 14; Haug-Sixt, Röm. Inschr. Württ., 50 No. 354; Esp. Rec. Germ., 255 No. 400 and fig. See fig. 344, kindly supplied by the Direction of the Museum.

Naked torso encircled by two serpents, which hold their heads above a vase which is carved in relief on the body of the standing god (Aion). On the l. shoulder part of a cape. The head, the arms and the l. leg, as well as the r. leg below the knee are lost.

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