A Gallo-Roman Limestone Figure of Jupiter, circa 3rd/4th Century A.D.

standing on a tall quadrangular base with the weight on his right leg and holding a fragmentary thunderbolt in his right hand, his extended left hand once holding a separately-made scepter, and wearing a mantle falling from the left shoulder, his hair bound in a diadem, an eagle at this feet, the base inscribed IOM (Iupiter Optimus Maximus).

discovered fortuitously in late 1902 in a field on the banks of the Canal du Midi in the area of Avignonet, Haute Garonne, France
acquired in France by the present owner in 1988

Louis de Santi, "Statue de Jupiter, Avignonet, Haute-Garonne" (session of January 13th, 1903), Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Midi de la France, 2nd series, nos. 29 to 31, Novembre 19th, 1901, to July 7th, 1903, Toulouse, 1903, pp. 228-230
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. III, Paris, 1904, p. 7, no. 2, illus. (line drawing)
Mémoires de la société archéologique du Midi de la France, vol. 36, 1971, p. 14
Gallia, vol. 38, 1980, p. 475
Bulletin analytique d'histoire romaine, vol. 10, 1975, p. 104

Lower edges of base chipped, one corner broken off, proper left ankle broken away, front of thunderbolt missing, head reattached, minor chips and abrasions, surface weathered overall.
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