EPIDAURUS SANCTUARY ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Epidaurus site museum: surgical tools, inscriptions, elements of the sanctuary's temples, magnificent Corinthian capital..
This small museum (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ασκληπιείου Επιδαύρου/Archaiologiko Mousio Asklipiiou Epidavrou) houses some of the artefacts discovered in and around the sanctuary of Asclepius in Epidaurus. In the first room, note the inscription by Marcus Julius Apellas (160 AD). This Roman citizen of Mylasa (south-west Turkey) describes his stomach ailments and the advice he received from a priest at the sanctuary: eat cheese, bread, celery and lettuce, drink milk with honey, run, take mud baths and so on. Another inscription (c. 280 BC) bears theHymn to Apollo and Asclepius by the poet Isyllos of Epidaurus, as well as an account of the miracles of the god of Medicine. Also on display is the bust of a kouros (6th century BC) from the ancient city of Epidaurus, and surgical tools (1st and 2nd centuries AD) discovered in the tomb of a family of doctors from the sanctuary. The second room contains copies of statues, notably those by the sculptor Timotheos of Epidaurus, which adorned the Temple of Asclepius (early 4th century BC). The original works are in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Finally, the third room features elements from the temples of Asclepius and Artemis, a reconstruction of an Ionic propylaeum (280 BC) and a magnificent Corinthian capital with acanthus leaves from the tholos (mid-4th century BC).
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