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Monumentum

Aion relief of Palazzo Colonna

The relief of Palazzo Colonna, Rome, depicts a lion-headed figure holding a burning torch in his outstretched hands.
  • Relief leontocephale

    Relief leontocephale
    A.-M. Rossetti, Archaeologia Classica 

  • Lion-headed / Aion of Palazzo Colonna

    Lion-headed / Aion of Palazzo Colonna
    CIMRM 

 
The New Mithraeum
15 Aug 2021
Updated on Oct 2024

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White marble relief (H. 0.75 Br. 0.65), walled into the wall of the flight of stairs, which leads to the garden of Palazzo Colonna.

Standing person with lion’s head, naked up to his hips, the lower part of his body being covered by a kind of trousers. In his outstretched hands he holds a burning torch. From his mouth a gust of wind is going into the direction of a burning altar before him. At his shoulders four wings are attached in opposite direction. Around each wing the windings of a serpent.

Vacca Mem. 117; Fea Misc. fil. I 102 No. 117; Montfaucon Ant. Expl. I (2) 369 and PI. CCV 2…