Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

8-9. Pairs of Opposites

GODS AND MYTHS

Aesculapius / With other figures / Telesphorus
Aesculapius / With Attributes / Rod of Aesculapius
Hygieia / With other figures / Aesculapius
Telesphorus

Further details

Eranos Archive 8/7 Cupid lets out a snake from the cista mystica. Hygieia offers an egg to the snake. Ivory diptych made in Rome. Traces of gold and pigment remain.

Artist or creator

Byzantine

Date

400-430

Location

Liverpool, Museum of Liverpool (Accession no. M10044)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

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Web resources

National Museums Liverpool

Contact

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IIIF manifest for this object