Asklepios, God of Healing

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Asklepios, God of Healing, and his Daughter Hygieia, found near Porta S. Giovanni, Rome. 2nd cent. A.D., marble, Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta. The lighting condition were really poor and the sculpture is against a wall in a corner making quite complicated to get a good 3D scan. Asclepius was a god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia (“Hygiene”, the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment), and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He was one of Apollo’s sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean (“the Healer”). The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today. ref. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius