Bottle of medicinal water from temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus

Made:
1920-1930 in Greece
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Bottle, originally for Evian water
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London.

Bottle, originally for Evian water
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London.

Bottle, originally for Evian water
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London.

Left hand side - A79498, Bottle, originally for Evian water
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Bottle, originally for Evian water
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Bottle, originally for Evian water, containing water from the medicinal well of the temple of Asklepios (Asclepius; Latin: Aesculapius) at Epidomos (Epidaurus), Greece, collected in 1930

The typed label pasted to the side of the bottle on the right gives us its source – the well at the temple of Asklepios (Asclepius; Latin: Aesculapius) at Epidaurus, Greece. Asklepios was the Greco-Roman god of healing and medicine. At the temple, those experiencing illness were cured in their dreams by the god as they slept, or had their dreams interpreted to get a treatment that would cure them. This was known as incubation.

Epidaurus, in southern Greece, was one of the most famous sites of a temple dedicated to Asklepios. Deserted since the 700s CE, the ruins can still be visited today.

The bottle was collected by Captain P Johnston-Saint, one of Henry Wellcome’s collecting agents. The water is shown here with a similar example collected from the temple of Asklepios at Athens (A79498).

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A79498
Materials:
bottle, glass, pale green and stopper, cork
Measurements:
overall: 316 mm x 83 mm 1.46 kg
type:
medicinal water
credit:
Loan, Wellcome Trust