IGII34 885 Dedication to Asklepios and Hygieia at Zea by a family

Dedication to Asklepios and Hygieia at Zea by a family

IG II³ 4 885 Date: 3rd-1st centuries BC

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IG II³ 4 885 (Translated text) (IG Online)

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Images: Wikimedia Commons - (1)

Monument type: Relief plaque

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Asklepios), Dedication (private, Hygieia)

Findspot: Asklepieion at Zea (Piraeus Museum 405)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This is a votive plaque dedicated to Asklepios and Hygieia by the family of a sick youth in the Asklepieion at Zea in Piraeus (on which see IG I³ 1081 with notes). The surviving portion of the inscription consists of only a few letters, from which no sense can be extracted. The relief depicts a sick young man lying on a bed. To the left stand his family: a woman, a beardless man, a bearded man, and a child. At right, the god Asklepios extends his arms to tend the youth’s shoulder, while Hygieia stands behind him. The scene appears to be a depiction of the ritual of incubation, in which a sick person slept for a night in one of Asklepios’ sanctuaries in the hope that he would appear and cure them in their dreams (cf. IG II³ 4, 718 with note).

Added: 19 Aug 2025
Updated: 19 Aug 2025
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