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.
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 23 Dec 2022
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'I remember there was found in the vineyard of Sig. Orazio Muti (where the treasure was discovered), opposite S. Vitale, an idol in marble about 5 palms high (3¾ ft.), standing erect upon a pedestal in an empty chamber, which had the door walled up. This idol had the head of a lion, but the body that of a man. Under the feet was a globe, whence sprung a serpent which encompassed all the idol, and its head entered into the lion's mouth. He had his hands crossed upon the breast, with a key in each; four wings fastened upon the shoulders, two pointing upwards, two downwards.