Agora Object: S 2505
Inventory Number:   S 2505
Section Number:   ΡΡ 409
Title:   Relief with Asklepios and Hygeia
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Lower left corner missing.
Asklepios and Hygeia stand side by side within naiskos, facing out.
Asklepios is on the left, leaning on a staff, which rests under his right arm. His right hand and wrist were either repaired or added in a separate piece of marble halfway up the forearm where the surface is cut smooth across and there is a hole for a small dowel. Traces of a snake coiling up the staff can be made out.
Hygeia stands to the right, her left arm held at her side; her right hand is held up, resting against an indistinct support, perhaps a tree, near Asklepios' head.
To Hygeia's left is the anta of the naiskos; above their heads runs an epistyle and stylized roof; to the right of Asklepios the piece has been cut smooth and in the back surface there is half of a clamp hole. Another piece joined here, either continuing the same plane or perhaps at right angles to this piece. Back rough-picked. Surface of front worn, though in places (Hygeia's face) remarkably fresh.
Crystalline white marble.
Cf. S 2249 (Σ 3023) and S 2181 (ΠΑ 600).
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   1289
Negatives:   Leica, 95-9-30, 95-9-31, 95-9-32, 95-9-33, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.53; W. 0.41; Th. 0.12
Material:   Marble
Date:   14 July 1972
Section:   ΡΡ
Grid:   T/7-13/10
Elevation:   Ca. 58.80-58.65m.
Masl:   58.65-58.8m.
Deposit:   T 13:1
Bibliography:   Lawton (2015), p. 33, nn. 32, 33.
    Martens (2015), p. 61, n. 22.
    AgoraPicBk 27 (2006), p. 31, fig. 35.
    AgoraPicBk 19 (1980), fig. 29.
    Agora XXXVIII, no. 23, p. 41, pl. 6.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:S 2249
    Agora:Object:S 2181
References:   Publications (5)
Images (4)
Deposit: T 13:1
Card: S 2505
Card: S 2505