Relief of Silvanus

TNMM 627 ↔ CIMRM 236

Marble relief (H.o. 43 Br. 0.26).

Silvanus with a sickle and a pine-branch in his hands; a dog on his l. side. The god is standing in a small temple with a tympanum in which a little Gorgo-head is visible in a circular frame, decorated with two ribbons. The temple is accessible by three steps.

Still in Ostia, another representation of Silvanus (CIMRM 236) was found in the Aldobrandini mithreum, built on the banks of the Tiber near the Porta Romana, at the entrance to the city, and excavated in 1923. A bas-relief carved on a white marble slab shows the statue of the god standing on a pedestal in an aedicula reached by three steps. He wears a short tunic and, as on the mosaic, holds a pine branch in his left hand and a sickle in his right. To his left is a dog. This relief, dating from the 3rd century, is the only one found in this temple, which was moved in ancient times.