Monumentum
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.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
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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