A ROMAN REPOUSSÉ STAMPED SHEET GOLD PLAQUE OF ASKLEPIOS AND HYGIEA, Asklepios, the god of medicine, standing with himation wrapped around him leaning on his serpent-entwined staff, his daughter, Hygiea, the goddess of health, stands to his right wearing a chiton and himation and holds a serpent in her right hand, between them is the small figure of his son Telesphorus, a Thracian god of recovery, wearing a typical Thracian cloak with pointed hood, both Hygiea and Asklepios shown with arc around their head, standing on ground line -- 1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) sq. average, 2nd-3rd Century A.D.

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A ROMAN REPOUSSÉ STAMPED SHEET GOLD PLAQUE OF ASKLEPIOS AND HYGIEA, Asklepios, the god of medicine, standing with himation wrapped around him leaning on his serpent-entwined staff, his daughter, Hygiea, the goddess of health, stands to his right wearing a chiton and himation and holds a serpent in her right hand, between them is the small figure of his son Telesphorus, a Thracian god of recovery, wearing a typical Thracian cloak with pointed hood, both Hygiea and Asklepios shown with arc around their head, standing on ground line -- 1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) sq. average, 2nd-3rd Century A.D.

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