Head of Asklepios

Asklepios was the god of medicine and healing, and his cult was popular throughout Classical and Hellenistic Greece, especially in Asia Minor and the Aegean islands.

This particular head was found on one of those islands, Melos. Its size suggests that it was part of a colossal sculpture, perhaps the cult statue in Asklepios’s sanctuary

Number

326

Material

Parian marble

Location of Original

London, British Museum 550

Size

0.58m

References

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 259 (n.3), pl. 95.2
Smith: Catalogue of British Museum Sculpture I (1892), 289-
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 90, no.488

Date

325-300 BCE

Provenance

Found in Melos in the shrine of Asklepios

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