| Collection: | Athens, National Archaeological Museum |
| Title: | Votive relief with Asklepios, Epione, and worshippers |
| Context: | From Athens, Acropolis (S. Slope) |
| Findspot: | Excavated at Athens, Acropolis, Asklepieion (South Slope) |
| Summary: | Asklepios, Epione, and worshippers |
| Object Function: | Votive |
| Material: | Marble |
| Sculpture Type: | Stele, relief-decorated |
| Category: | Single monument |
| Style: | Early Hellenistic |
| Technique: | Medium relief |
| Original or Copy: | Original |
| Date: | ca. 300 BC - ca. 250 BC |
| Dimensions: | H. 0.39 m; W. 0.49 m |
| Scale: | Miniature (pictorial field) |
| Region: | Attica |
| Period: | Early Hellenistic |
Subject Description: Four worshippers (two men, a woman, and a child at her side) approach 3/4-view to the right. Just right of center stands Epione, in a frontal standing pose, with her weight on her right leg. She wears a himation over a short-sleeved, belted chiton, holds her left hand at her side, and with her right hand holds her drapery just above her shoulder, where it veils her head. This is the anakalypsis gesture which indicates that she is the wife of Asklepios. To her right the god Asklepios is seated, on his throne, near profile to the left (although his upper chest is turned in 3/4-view). He holds his right hand on his lap and rests his left arm on the back of his throne. Under his throne is coiled a snake. As Svoronos noted, this representation of Asklepios closely follows the image of Zeus in the assembly of the gods on the East of the
Form & Style: The relief is framed by a plinth and two antae supporting a roof edge with 7-8 antefixes (of which 3-4 are preserved).
Condition: Nearly complete
Condition Description: Missing the upper left corner.
Material Description: "Pentelic" according to Svoronos
Inscription:
On the epistyle the following inscription is carved:
Svoronos restored this as
Associated Building: Athens, Asklepieion
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