Bacchus of Aldaia

The Bacchus of Aldaia (Spanish: Baco de Aldaya) is an ancient Roman marble statuette of the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus) that was found in La Ereta dels Moros in Aldaia, Valencia, in Spain, in two fragments between the years 1884 and 1924.

[1] The lower part of the sculpture was found in 1884 in the La Ereta dels Moros farm, in Aldaia, by a man named Pascual Simón who was plowing his fields.

Around 1924, by which time the man who made the discovery was already deceased, his son stumbled upon the rest of the sculpture while tilling the same field.

[3] The god is represented as a young man, wearing a crown of flowers and a ribbon (taenia) on his head.

However, since the features and expression are undoubtedly those of a young man, certain authors speculate that it is a portrait of a person with the attributes of divinity, a relatively common occurrence within the Greco-Roman statuary tradition.