| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | S 1999 12b | |
| Title: | STATUETTE OF ASKLEPIOS, TELESPHOROS: RT. HAND, SNAKE | |
| Category: | Sculpture | |
| Category Code: | S | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Object Number: | 12 | |
| Object Suffix: | b | |
| Related Objects: | S-1999-12A | |
| Description: | Rt. arm down at side, hand down, holding egg between thumb and index finger; last two fingers bent down, with small strut on folded little finger; incised joints, fingers rendered. Egg being eaten by snake which rises from coil on plinth (A), presumably wrapping around staff beside Asklepios' rt. leg, then reaching up to touch egg; head of snake triangular, faint rendering of lt. eye, mouth. Beside snake is part of slender staff, which flattens at lower break, probably where snake coiled around it. Surfaces highly polished. | |
| Mythology: | Asklepios | |
| Attributes: | Snake Egg | |
| Material: | Fine-grained white marble. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Four joining frgts., preserving right forearm, hand, upper part of snake, part of staff; lower 2/3 blackened by fire. Exact findplace within room unknown. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L00.023 (hand max) W00.010 (palm) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.070 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 4th century A.C. Context 3rd q. 4th c.; 3rd or 4th c. according to Stirling | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB918 B95 P123 | |
| Bibliography: | Stirling 2008, Hesperia 77:1, no. 9b; Sanders 2005, p. 424 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Stirling, Hesperia 77:1, 2008 Monument: Panaghia Villa Images (5) Basket: NB918 B95 P123 Notebook Page: NB 918, spread 66 (p. 123) |
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