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Lion-serpent statue from Nyon

Limestone statue fragment from Nyon, ancient Colonia Iulia Equestris, depicting a lion encircled by a serpent with schematic scorpions engraved in small triangles on each flank; a composition associated with Mithraic lion symbolism.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2273 ↔ CIMRM 1394

Fragment of a statue (Br. 0.50) in limestone found in the Rue Delafléchère in the 19th cent., where now the room has been excavated. Nyon, Musée archéologique et historique, Inv. No. 589. Fig. 359.

Pelichet in Mél. Bosset 178 and fig. 13.

Lion encircled by a serpent. On either flank of the animal there is a small triangle in which a schematic scorpion has been engraved.

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