RAILING WITH HERMS, bronze, 4th century, Mediana

RAILING WITH HERMS, bronze, 4th century, Mediana

The hoard containing components of bronze railing was discovered to the northwest from villa with peristyle, during excavations at Mediana in 2000. It presents part of the mounting rails that are saved three entire “table”, a fragmented and two busts of the herme Lune and Asclepius. It is supposed that a shrine to Asclepius and Hygeia had been set up in the great hall of the villa with peristyle, and that the bronze railing with hermae had been brought into the shrine.

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