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Monumentum

Aion fresco of Caputa Vetere

Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.
 
The New Mithraeum
8 Nov 2023

TNMM 735 ↔ CIMRM 185

Fresco (H. 0.70) in the corner of the North wall near the preceding No.

Owing to the weathered painting the representation is hardly distinguishable. It could be the figure of Aion (?) with outspread green wings pointing downwards. We could not discover a single trace of a snake which should twist itself round his body (Minto).

References

Minto, 366.

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