Agora Object: S 593
Inventory Number:   S 593
Section Number:   Η 503
Title:   Relief Fragment with Asklepios
Category:   Sculpture
Description:   Broken at left and top; back rough-picked; surface badly worn.
In low relief is shown Asklepios, seated three-quarters left, on a throne at the foot of which is coiled a serpent. In his right hand, Asklepios holds a staff; his left rests on the arm of the throne. His cloak is thrown over the lower part of his body, one end being thrown over his left shoulder and arm and falls down over arm of throne. He wears sandals, his right foot rests on a footstool and is drawn back, and his left is broken off. Before him is a draped figure leaning on a pillar or post. All but the arm, part of the drapery and post is broken away.
The entire scene is closed by a raised edge.
Pentelic marble.
Context:   Byzantine wall, north part of section.
Negatives:   Leica, L-14, 95-5-5
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.406; H. (edge) ca. 0.023; P.W. 0.25, (edges) ca. 0.027-0.039; Th. 0.082
Material:   Marble (Pentelic)
Date:   1 June 1935
Section:   Η
Bibliography:   Lawton (2015), p. 33, n. 31.
    Martens (2015), p. 61, n. 22.
    Mitropoulou (1977), Deities and Heroes in the Form of Snakes.
    Richter (1966), p. 100, fig. 494.
    Hausmann (1960), p. 96, fig. 58.
    Agora XXXVIII, no. 30, p. 43, pl. 7.
References:   Publication: Agora XXXVIII
Publication: Lawton (2015)
Publication: Martens (2015)
Image: 2012.81.0023 (95-5-5)
Image: 2002.03.0552 (L-14)
Notebook: Η-7
Notebook Page: Η-7-10 (pp. 1157-1158)
Card: S 593