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Monumentum

Aesculapius of Merida

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.
 
The New Mithraeum
22 Jan 2022
Marble statue (H. 1.20), found in 1902. Mus. Merida, Inv. No. 120.

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.

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Estatua que representa a un personaje de pie, apoyando el peso del cuerpo en la pierna derecha, quedando la otra exonerada. Lleva un manto que, dejando el torso desnudo…

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