In the Old English Genesis A, the poet describes how Lot's wife was turned into a sealtstān, adding that she must remain in that place until the Lord decides her fate at the Last Judgment:

The Vulgate says that Lot's wife “was turned into a statue of salt” (versa est in statuam salis, Gen. 19:26), which the poet renders as sealtstānes anlīcnes. OE anlīcnes can refer to a statue – as it does here insofaras it corresponds to Vulgate statua – but always as a specification of its base meaning “likeness” or “image,” which designates a representation of something else. Here it is a “likeness” made of sealtstān (material genitive), but also a “likeness” of a sealtstān (genitive of comparison), for it is not a natural formation. At the same time it is a monlīica, a “likeness” of what had been a human being. For medieval Christians the human was defined by the book of Genesis as “the image and likeness” of God (Faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem 0nostram, Gen. 1:26), and both Latin imago and similitudo were regularly translated by anlicnes in Old English.