Statuette of Asklepios

early 1st century B.C.

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

37.5 × 18.5 cm

Status

In Museum Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-218494

The standing male statuette is missing his head, neck, right arm between the shoulder and the hand, part of the left forearm, and feet. The figure stands with his weight on his slightly bent right leg. The left leg is significantly flexed with the left foot pulled back suggesting that the heel was probably raised off the ground. The figure is wrapped in a himation so that the upper torso is bare. He grasps the drapery at his right hip with his right hand. The himation is tied at his left armpit and draped over the left shoulder, covering what is preserved of the bent left arm and the entire backside except the right shoulder. The folds of the drapery consist of deep grooves and high ridges. The musculature of the torso is well articulated. Asklepios was a popular god in Athens and many statues and reliefs depicting the god have been found there. There was an important shrine dedicated to Asklepios on the south slope of the Acropolis. The workmanship of the Getty fragment is consistent with Attic work.