Aion of Orazio Muti

Marble statue, "alto da 5 palmi"; now lost. Montfaucon, Diarium, 198; Zoega, AM., 204 n. 8. The known drawings of this monument are to reduce to an engraving of Pietro S. Bartoli, who should have made it from the description of Vacca, whose manuscript he had in his possession (cf. Hoeck, Vet. Med. Mon.). Montfaucon, Ant. Expl., I (2), 369, PI. CCXV, 1; Seel, 226 and PI. Vila; MMM II I96f No. 10a and fig. 21 ; Lanciani, Storia Scavi, III, 200. A naked figure with monstruous lion’s head is standing on a globe. At his shoulders four wings are attached in opposite direction…