Monumentum
Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill
Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.
Human figure bound by a serpent nailed around his body.
ARAS / Anderson. No. 23649.
The New Mithraeum
15 Jan 2026
Nude male standing wrapped in material as if a cadaver
with only face (or mask as in mummies) showing serpent coiled seven times around legs and entire body, head resting on head of personage, serpent head at forehead.
Anderson describes the figure as a male divinity; Bossert as representation of symbolic burial of Syrian sun god; Cumont says that seven eggs are deposited between the seven coils of the serpent representing the hope of resurrection, the seven coils of the serpent representing the seven planetary spheres which bear the ascent of the soul towards immortality.
Roman.
Found in
with only face (or mask as in mummies) showing serpent coiled seven times around legs and entire body, head resting on head of personage, serpent head at forehead.
Anderson describes the figure as a male divinity; Bossert as representation of symbolic burial of Syrian sun god; Cumont says that seven eggs are deposited between the seven coils of the serpent representing the hope of resurrection, the seven coils of the serpent representing the seven planetary spheres which bear the ascent of the soul towards immortality.
Roman.
Found in
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