Aesculapius of Merida
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Standing male person, dressed in a folded garment, which leaves the breast uncovered. Head, hands and feet are missing. Paris sees a snake in one of the folds (Aesculapius?).
Paris in RA XXIV, 1914, 14f No. 15 and fig. 11; Melida in BAH 1914,448 No. 6 and Pl. V; Cat. Badajoz, No. 1092; Pidal, Hist. Esp. II, 433 and fig. 234; Garcia y Bellido, Culto, fig. 14.
Data
- Location
Casa del Mitreo de Mérida, Emerita Augusta, Lusitania (Hispania) Mérida (Spain) - Current location
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano [CE00120] Merida (Spain) - Type
- Labels
- Dimensions H. 120 W. D. cm
- Dating 2nd century
- Material Marble (white)
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/425
- CIMRM 786
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