The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . ? ?????mmjmj PLATE V—Restoration or part or Abaton and or Temple or Asklepio (Defrasse) Within the temple stood, as shown in Defrasses drawing,Plate VI, the great chryselephantine statue of Asklepios madeby Thrasymedes of Paros, a work somewhat resembling theParthenon figure, or the vast Zeus of Olympia, or the Hera atthe Argive Herason ; the flesh was ivory, the rest goldsplendidly enamelled in colours. So many small replicas of ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS J this
The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . ? ?????mmjmj PLATE V—Restoration or part or Abaton and or Temple or Asklepio (Defrasse) Within the temple stood, as shown in Defrasses drawing,Plate VI, the great chryselephantine statue of Asklepios madeby Thrasymedes of Paros, a work somewhat resembling theParthenon figure, or the vast Zeus of Olympia, or the Hera atthe Argive Herason ; the flesh was ivory, the rest goldsplendidly enamelled in colours. So many small replicas of ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS J this figure remain—sculptured copies found at Epidauros, orsmall representations on ancient coins—that by the aid ofPausanias description M. Defrasse has doubtless reproducedthe image with a near approach to accuracy. The god was sitting on a throne, a large golden serpentrising up to his left hand ; on his right lay a dog, and in frontwas an PLATE VI—Restoration or chryselephantine figure of Asklepios(Defrasse) Gold and ivory were beautiful materials for the sculptor,though involving much difficulty when combined. Thedisappearance of all attempts at chryselephantine sculpture inmodern times is perhaps due to this difficulty in productionand to the cost, but probably more to the fact that the ivoryusually tended to crack. The great figure of Athena in theParthenon needed, we know, to be frequently moistened on itsivory surface with water. At Olympia, oil was applied to thegreat figure of Zeus, but curiously enough the Asklepios at 0 THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OF Epidauros needed neither. As the god of medicine, it may besupposed that he was able to preserve his own integument, butPausanias tells us that a well, beneath the pavement of thetemple, diffused sufficient moisture to prevent contraction andcracking of the On the throne were representations, doubtless in relief, ofBellerophon killing the Chimera, and of Pers
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