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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3128674, member: 75937"]Getting back to [USER=70512]@Okidoki[/USER] 's post about the aureus of Hadrian, here's a photo of the Mosaic from Sentium (now in Munich's Glyptothek) depicting Aion within the circle of the zodiac. It has been dated to AD 200/250:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]797750[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another mosaic, from Hippo Regius, depicts in its central portion (in the upper left of this photo), Annus-Aion, depicted as young and half-naked, standing and holding a Zodiac circle in his right hand. On his left hand, he holds a cornucopiae that is full with vine leaves. It has been dated to AD late 3rd Century/early 4th Century:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]797751[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>See Derya Sahin, "The Zodiac in Ancient Mosaics: Representation of Concepts of Time." <a href="http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/294046" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/294046" rel="nofollow"><i>JMR</i> 3, 2009: 95-111</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3128674, member: 75937"]Getting back to [USER=70512]@Okidoki[/USER] 's post about the aureus of Hadrian, here's a photo of the Mosaic from Sentium (now in Munich's Glyptothek) depicting Aion within the circle of the zodiac. It has been dated to AD 200/250: [ATTACH=full]797750[/ATTACH] Another mosaic, from Hippo Regius, depicts in its central portion (in the upper left of this photo), Annus-Aion, depicted as young and half-naked, standing and holding a Zodiac circle in his right hand. On his left hand, he holds a cornucopiae that is full with vine leaves. It has been dated to AD late 3rd Century/early 4th Century: [ATTACH=full]797751[/ATTACH] See Derya Sahin, "The Zodiac in Ancient Mosaics: Representation of Concepts of Time." [URL='http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/294046'][I]JMR[/I] 3, 2009: 95-111[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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