CIMRM 544

TNMM 1079 ↔ CIMRM 544

White marble statue (H. 0.59 Br. 0.20 base). Museo Torlonia, walled in beside the preceding No. Raffei, Oss., PL IV, 2; Clarac, Mus. Sculpt., IV, 26 and PL 562B, 1193A; Zoega, Bass., II, 37, Abh., 199ff No.4; Morcelli, Villa Alb., No. 561; Lajard, Intr., PL LXXI, 3; Memoire Venus, 110 and PL XVIII; MMM II 216 No. 40 and fig. 47; Eisler, Weltenmantel, II, 412 fig. 49. On a cone, decorated with a crescent, a figure is standing with lion's head, and a pair of wings, attached to shoulders and feet (Aion). He is entwined in seven coils of a serpent, which rests its head on the god's. He presses his claw-like hands against his body and wears on his breast a belt with hooks (lightning ?). Each hand grasps a key with five holes (L broken). Lost: r. foot-wing and half of one the serpent's coils. The mouth-aperture penetrates the marble.