| Scope and Content |
Card base with two black and white photographs and one illustration attached, labelled with pasted letters a-c. The number 377 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Relief to Asklepios G.P.Byzantinos" is written in in in the lower right corner; "The sandal is 22 in. high" is written in ink in a smaller size on the left side of the base. Each image has beside it a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Votive relief of a sandal, dedicated by Silon to Askleipios: found near the Sanctuary of Asklepios at Athens: c. 300 B.C. a. The sandal. The curious sinkings probably represent the openings in the sandal for its straps. The relief may commemorate the cure of a foot disease. But, since is it the sandal, not the foot, that is represented, it may record an escape from snake-bite by the thickness of the sandal. (G.P. Byzantinos). b. The whole monument, showing the sandal, snake and inscription. c. The inscription: in this drawing the sandal has been removed from the plinth." |
