ASKLEPIOS
ギリシア神話の医神ASKLEPIOS。「アスクレピオスの杖」という蛇の巻きついた杖は、
医術の象徴とされます。また、それより遡るとImhotepの名が医神として残っています。
(Imhotep was the architect, physician, scribe,
and grand vizier of the IIIrd Dynasty pharaoh Zoser. It was Imhotep who conceived and built the Step Pyramid at Sakkara. In the Late Period, Imhotep was worshipped as the son of Ptah and a god of medicine, as well as the patron (with Thoth) of scribes. The Greeks considered him to be Asklepios.)

Greek, Helenistic period, 2nd century B.C.

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