CIMRM Supplement - Gold figurine of Aion? Lentini, nr. Syracuse, Italy.

Possible statuette of Aion, possibly Mithraic.

Figurine Titre: Aîon, divinité solaire Date: 2nd century AD Place of discovery: Lentini (prov. de Syracuse) Dimensions: 5.6 cm (h) Material: Gold Inventory: Q 0018 Description: Divinité mithriaque, barbue, portant une sorte de polos ou de calathos radié sur la tête, et dont le corps est entouré d'un serpent. Mithraic divinity, bearded, wearing a kind of rayed "polos" or "calathos" on his head, and whose body is encircled by a serpent.