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Monumentum

Aion from Rome

Lion-head god with traces of red paint found in Rome.
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The New Mithraeum
26 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 1081 ↔ CIMRM 550

White marble statuette (H. 0.41 Br. 0.17). Mus. Lateran, Inv. No. 319A.

Standing Aion with lion’s head and four wings, two of which are pointing upwards, two downwards. He is entwined in seven coils of the serpent, which rests its head on the god’s. Both hands lost. All over the figure, traces of red paint.

MMM 34

Statuette de marbre blanc [H. 0m,41, L. 0m,17] au Museo Egiziano du Vatican, dernier cabinet, n° 45.

Inédite.

Homme à tête de lion, avec deux ailes de chaque côté du corps, sept fois entouré d’un serpent, dont la tête vient se poser sur son crâne. Les deux mains sont brisées.

Travail très grossier.

References

MMM II 213 No. 34; Amelung, Skulpt. Vat., I (4), 693 No. 571a with Taf. 74. See fig. 156.

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