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Object Type: statue
Museum number: 1864,0220.2
Description: Marble statue of Asclepius; leaning on a club round which a snake is twined; bearded and wearing diadem and mantle; right shoulder bare; by his side is a draped figure of Telesphoros (which is headless).
Cultures/periods: Roman (perhaps after a Greek original of the third century BC)
Production date: 2ndC
Materials: marble
Dimensions: Height: 62.23 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Sculpture / Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum (1694); Jackson 2023 / Greek and Roman Medicine at the British Museum: the Instruments and Accoutrements of Ancient Medicine (6.42)
Location: On display (G1/od/nr89)
Subjects: classical deity; reptile
Associated names: Representation of: Asclepius; Representation of: Telesphoros
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1864,0220.2
Conservation: Treatment: 19 Feb 2002

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