Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli

Marble relief (H. 0.34 Br. 0.30 D. 0.13), probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli. Was in the private colI. of Franz Cumont, now in the Belgian Academy in Rome. Cumont in CRAI 1928, 274f and fig.; Pesce in BullSRAA 1939, 252 and fig. 12; Levi in Hesperia XII, 1944, 277 fig. 6; Vermaseren, Mithrasdienst Rome, 102. See fig. 116. On a base two persons standing side by side, with their backs against the wall. The left one is entirely naked but for a loincloth, and is entwined by a serpent, which rests its two heads on the god’s shoulders…