Relief of the twelve gods (Marbach am Neckar)
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The relief of the twelve gods from Marbach am Neckar , a town in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg , dates from the 2nd / 3rd centuries. Century AD. The original is exhibited in the Roman lapidarium of the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart .
The memorial made of sandstone reed is 55 cm high, 75 cm wide and 9 cm deep.
Mercurius stands in the middle of the relief , the other eleven gods are arranged in two rows with seven and four figures. Jupiter , Fortuna , Sol , Silvanus , Castor and Pollux and Heracles are certain to be named . The naming of a male god (possibly Mars ) and three female deities, which could be Luna , Juno and Ceres , are uncertain .
The relief was discovered in 1583 in a wall on the market in Marbach and sent by archaeologist Simon Studion with six other Roman stones to Stuttgart to Duke Ludwig , who had them erected together with other Roman monuments in the towers of the New Lusthaus in Stuttgart.
