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A Votive Relief to Asclepius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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The National Museum of Athens has recently acquired a votive relief of a remarkable and perhaps unique character. It was found in Athens in January, 1904, during the excavation of a cellar in the house of E. Bosnopoulos, situated to the south of the Military Hospital and not far from the Asclepieion, whence it is likely that it was brought. In accordance with the Greek law of antiquities it was deposited in the Museum and has now been set up in the Hall of Votive Reliefs.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1905

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page 149 note 1 I have been informed by a person who lives near the scene o the discovery and has a turn for antiquities, that there must have been a healing spring dedicated to some goddess in this. quarter, since certain sculptures and votive offerings and other remains were found there many years ago. But the spot which he showed me is almost as far off as is the Asclepieion from the house of Bosnopoulos where the relie, was discovered.

page 149 note 2 As for example a marble base with the type of two feet found in Delos, and the numerous feet found in many of the sanctuaries of Asia Minor and Lesbos.

page 150 note 1 As for example, a tablet discovered in Phrygia with the type of two feet and the following inscription below:—

Αρτέμιδι ᾿Ανάειτι καὶ Μηνὶ Τιάμου Μελτίνη ὑπὲρ τῆς ὁλοκληρίας Τῶν ποδῶν εὐχὴν ἀνέστησε