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Asklepios, Manisa 393. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Asklepios, Manisa 393, right side. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Asklepios, Manisa 393, back. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Marble Sculpture of Asklepios
- Date
- Hadrianic, Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 393
- Museum Inventory No.
- 393
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 393
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Mythological Figure
- Site
- Sardis?
- Findspot
- Findspot unknown
- Description
Asklepios stands with weight on I. leg, r. leg bent, I. hand on hip. His head was turned slightly to proper r. He wears sandals with closed heels; a cloak falls over his I. shoulder, is drawn across both hips and held by I. hand, leaving most of torso bare. The cloak also falls over and conceals a support at back. On cloak at r. hip is the break from a strut to support arm and staff, the end of which is preserved with snake, near r. foot. Plinth is straight at front, oval at back.
Traces of stop-and-go drill almost entirely obliterated, except one visible under armpit, but very straight drill-type folds. The back is summarily worked with shallow diagonal folds.
The figure is a paraphrase on the early classical Dresden Zeus. This example is a very smooth Hadrianic copy.
- Condition
Very white marble, Parian (?), with even, fairly large grains, the same as
Cat. 74 (Fig. 190).Head and r. arm below shoulder missing.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.59; W. 0.36; H. of plinth 0.04.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Two fragmentary bases of Asklepios were also found by the excavation (NoEx59.002 and NoEx69.025). For the Dresden Zeus see P. Herrmann, Verzeichnis Dresden, 25, no. 68.
- Author
- NHR