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.
The New Mithraeum
15 Aug 2021
Updated on Oct 2024
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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…