On the history of the discovery of the characters

In 1853, a farmer working in the fields near Ingelheim am Rhein found the three statues made of Lorraine limestone. Two are almost completely preserved, the third a torso consisting of the head and torso. The finder sold the objects to Albertus Gerrit de Roock, a Dutch merchant who amassed a huge fortune as a privateer and sugar producer on Java and settled in Ingelheim. De Roock, in turn, donates the statues to the Association for Nassau Archeology in Wiesbaden.