Monumentum
Aion of Orazio Muti
This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.
Lion-headed statue of winged Mithra with snake (Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum, 1702)
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Publicado en Antiquitates Graecae et Romanae por Bernard de Montfaucon, 1757, en Nüremberg (Alemania)
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2007
Updated on Oct 2025
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…
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