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Author: * Nantonos Aedui -
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Date: Aug 29, 2003 - 16:20
Too late for the previous posting, I found a photo of a bronze statuse of Jupier Dolichenus from Mauer an der Url, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The statue dates to the first half of the third century ce (200-250) and shows Jupiter standing on the back of a bull. He is wearing a Phrygian cap, breastplate and half-boots and is armed with thunderbolts and a double axe.
The same picture shows a brionze triangular plaque with embossed decoration showing an eagle, the sun god Sol, the moon goddess Luna, Jupiter Dolichenus, Juno Regina, Victoria and others; its thought to have been mounted on a staff and used in processions although it could also have been mounted on a wall.
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