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Chap. XII.] Epidaurus mid Ancient Medicine.
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works of the early fourth century and show Athenian
influence. We learn from an inscription discovered on
the spot that models (tvttoi) for the sculpture which
adorned the temple of Asclepius were furnished by
Timotheus, doubtless the same sculptor who worked
with Scopas on the Mausoleum, and that he was paid
900 drachmas for them. The interesting figures of
Amazons, Nereids, and other ideal beings made after
the models of Timotheus are now ranged in a room in
the central Museum at Athens ; but since no casts from
them have been taken they are not so widely known as
they should be.
But perhaps the most important spoil of all consists
in the inscriptions, which are early, numerous and of
great length. Here as in Delos and on other sites
we have recovered a considerable part of the archives of
the temple, among other things the details of the cost
of its construction, and several documents in regard to
the worship of the great deity of Epidaurus. The last
twenty years have brought us an astonishing amount of
this kind of document, showing us whence the revenues
of temples were derived, how they were administered, and
in what way they were expended, how the offerings
dedicated in them were placed, how repairs were from
time to time executed, and the like. There is material
of this kind to fill with the mere text several volumes,
and even German industry has as yet by no means
absorbed all the new data thus procured. As to us
English, we shall probably wait until the results of
discovery slowly filter down to us through new editions
of German text-books.
Among the most striking results of the excavations
has been the recovery of two inscriptions * of con-
siderable length, giving details of many of the cures
* Ephem. Arch. 1883, p. 197, and 1885, p. r.
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works of the early fourth century and show Athenian
influence. We learn from an inscription discovered on
the spot that models (tvttoi) for the sculpture which
adorned the temple of Asclepius were furnished by
Timotheus, doubtless the same sculptor who worked
with Scopas on the Mausoleum, and that he was paid
900 drachmas for them. The interesting figures of
Amazons, Nereids, and other ideal beings made after
the models of Timotheus are now ranged in a room in
the central Museum at Athens ; but since no casts from
them have been taken they are not so widely known as
they should be.
But perhaps the most important spoil of all consists
in the inscriptions, which are early, numerous and of
great length. Here as in Delos and on other sites
we have recovered a considerable part of the archives of
the temple, among other things the details of the cost
of its construction, and several documents in regard to
the worship of the great deity of Epidaurus. The last
twenty years have brought us an astonishing amount of
this kind of document, showing us whence the revenues
of temples were derived, how they were administered, and
in what way they were expended, how the offerings
dedicated in them were placed, how repairs were from
time to time executed, and the like. There is material
of this kind to fill with the mere text several volumes,
and even German industry has as yet by no means
absorbed all the new data thus procured. As to us
English, we shall probably wait until the results of
discovery slowly filter down to us through new editions
of German text-books.
Among the most striking results of the excavations
has been the recovery of two inscriptions * of con-
siderable length, giving details of many of the cures
* Ephem. Arch. 1883, p. 197, and 1885, p. r.
2 B