A Marble figure of The Young Asklepios, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

the god standing on a profiled base with the weight on his right leg, and formerly holding a staff in his missing right hand, his head turned to his right, and wearing sandals and himation falling in long zigzag folds from his left shoulder, remains of a serpent coiled around the fragmentary staff on the base, his wavy hair radiating from the crown, parted in the center over the forehead, falling in long voluted curls over the temples and nape of the neck, and bound in a cylindrical diadem.

Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1970
English private collection, Gloucester
Jack Ogden, London
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1984

Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, Art of the Ancient World, vol. IV, no. 65: A Guide for the Collector and Investor, September 1985, no. 220, illus.

Very good, tip of nose lightly abraded, small chips along most of drapery folds in front, small ancient iron tenon on side of proper right calf, back more heavily encrusted than front
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For a related figure of the young Asklepios see Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol.  II.2, p. 633, no. 22.