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Asklepios (Aesculapius), detail of head and chest: frontal view

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Asklepios (Aesculapius), detail of head and chest: back view

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Asklepios (Aesculapius): three-quarter view from right

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Asklepios (Aesculapius): frontal view

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Asklepios (Aesculapius): three-quarter view from back right

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Asklepios (Aesculapius), detail of head and chest: view from left

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Title: Asklepios (Aesculapius)
Summary: Asklepios with snake-entwined staff
Material: Bronze
Sculpture Type: Free-standing statue
Style: Late Classical
Date: ca. 1 AD - ca. 200 AD
Dimensions: H 0.127 m
Scale: Miniature
Period: Roman Imperial


Subject Description: Long-haired and bearded Asklepios wears a full-length cloak falling from his left shoulder and sandals. His right hand is on his hip and his left hand holds a staff with his sacred snake wrapped around it.

Condition: Intact

Sources Used: Comstock & Vermeule 1971, 90 no. 96