Roman sculpture in honor of Jupiter | Photo: LAD/A. Thiel
Roman sculpture honoring Jupiter. The object was discovered in 2024 in Stuttgart, southwest Germany, on the site of a former Roman fort.
The permanent camp (castra stativa) was built in 90 CE and was intended to protect local villas and the road connecting Mogontiacum (present-day Mainz) and Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg).
The discovered sculpture is made of sandstone and stands 30 cm high. Researchers believe it was part of a larger composition honoring Jupiter. The sculpture depicts a kneeling man.
Researchers believe that a giant column honoring Jupiter, of which the discovered figurine was a component, stood in the center of the camp.
