Cool online research stuff!

[hearthstone]

Votive offerings to Asklepios

Somehow I was envisioning something a little smaller :). Certainly gives me an interesting mental picture of what the god's temples must have looked like way back when!

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[elfarrow.livejournal.com]

ya know, that is quite cool.

[hearthstone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought so too. Apparently in many of Asklepios temples it was customary to use more traditional votives, but the body parts are somehow both appropriate and charming.