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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

  • CIMRM 383

    CIMRM 383
    Vermaseren's Corpus

 
The New Mithraeum
15 Aug 2021
Updated on Oct 2024

TNMM 317 ↔ CIMRM 383

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.

References

Vacca Mem. 117; Fea Misc. fil. I 102 No. 117; Montfaucon Ant. Expl. I (2) 369 and PI. CCV 2; Diarium 198; Zoega Abh. 205 No. 9; Seel 227f and Taf. VlIb; Lajard Rech. 581 fig. 22; Intr. PI. LXXI 2; Matz-v. Duhn No. 3743; MMM II No. lOb and fig. 22; RRR 111219 3; Eisler Weltenmantel II 446 fig. 56; Lanciani Storia Scavi III 200; Pettazzoni in Ante XVIII 1949 PI. I; Vermaseren Mithrasdienst in Rome 67f. See fig. 109.

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