Thus, one would expect Epidauros to be at the forefront of new developments and to provide state-of-the-art therapeutic/curative facilities, particularly during its major expansion and monumentalization in the fourth and third centuries BCE. While not the site of origin of Asklepios and his cult, his sanctuary at Epidauros became the most important in the Greek world from the fifth century BCE onwards, serving as “mother” and model for many other sanctuaries of Asklepios.

Learn more.This paper critically reviews the archaeological evidence of bathing facilities in the sanctuaries of Asklepios and his father and cult companion Apollo Maleatas at Epidauros. The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Hutchinson Reference Number 1929.699 IIIF Manifest Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. Status Currently Off View Department Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium Culture Ancient Greek Title Column Krater (Mixing Bowl) Place Greece (Artist's nationality) Dateĭates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. On the edge of the rim is a double row of blobs and on the top a frieze of linked lotus buds, as on the neck, with a palmette complex on both handle plates. The front of the neck is decorated with a frieze of linked elongated buds the back is undecorated.

The figured scenes are framed on either side by a double row of blobs, below by a red line and above by a frieze of tongues. On the left, one faces to the right and gestures with his right hand the one in the centre faces right but makes no gesture that on the right faces left seems to move forward and gestures with his right hand. On the reverse are three youths in himatia. Hung up between the pairs is a large sponge (no sign of an aryballos). On the front of this vase are four youths: the centre pair younger, tightly wrapped in himatia, the flankers, older, that on the left holding a stick, on the right a scraper.

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