Asklepios Relief replica, 13 x 7 cm, 100 g
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Original picture - Piraeus Museum, the following link will take you directly to the exhibit
on the website of the Greek Ministry of Culture:
odysseus.culture.gr/h/4/eh430.jsp
odysseus.culture.gr/h/4/eh430.jsp
The Greek god of the art of healing, Asklepios, lat. Aesculapius, German Aesculap, son of the light god Apollon and the Koronis, whom she deceived with the mortal of Ischy. Apollon killed her for this iniquity, but saved the unborn child of Asklepios.
The name of his daughter Hygieia (Greek for "health") was reflected in the term hygiene.
Asklepios is said to have mastered medicine, surgery and herbalism. The healing treatment in the cult of Asklepios often consisted of the patient sleeping in the temple of Asklepios, which is usually located outside the city. In his dream, the doctor appeared to him and gave up diets or other cures to the patient.
When Asklepios tried his miracle healings on the dead, Zeus hurled him into the underworld with lightning.
This Asklepios relief was donated by a grateful patient to the Asklepeion (Asklepiostempel) in Piraeus. It shows the god of salvation as he is bending over a patient. To the right of him stands his daughter, the health goddess Hygieia, and at the foot end the bothering family of the sick is waiting.
The original relief has a size of 42 cm x 77 cm and is classified on the 4th century B. C. exhibit of the museum in Piraeus under the inventory no. 405.
This product was added to our catalog on Friday, April 4, 2014.