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[Agora Object] S 2505: Relief with Asklepios and Hygeia

Lower left corner missing. Asklepios and Hygeia stand side by side within naiskos, facing out. Asklepios is on the left, leaning on a staff, which rests under his right arm. His right hand and wrist were ... 14 July 1972 ... His right hand and wrist were either repaired or added in a separate piece of marble halfway up the forearm where the surface is cut smooth across and there is a hole for a small dowel. ... Hygeia stands to the right, her left arm held at her side; her right hand is held up, resting against an indistinct support, perhaps a tree, near Asklepios' head. ... Another piece joined here, either continuing the same plane or perhaps at right angles to this piece.