Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia
Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia
Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia
Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia
Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia
Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia
Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia

Roman Bronze Figure of Hygeia

SKU: HQ.0130

Origin: Mediterranean
Circa: 1st Century AD
Dimensions: 4.5" Height x 1.5" Width (11.5 cm x 3.8 cm)
Medium: Bronze

Hygeia was the daughter of the god Asklepius and the personification of health and hygiene. Here she is depicted wearing a long chiton that fans out at the hem, with a himation wrapped around her body that draws up to veil the back of her head. She  stands gracefully with her head turned to her left, holding an egg in her left hand which she offers to her father's healing serpent that coils around her right arm. Presented handsomely on the original square plinth with projected moldings above and below

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$6,000.00

Private American collection, 1988. Antiquities Christie's New York, June 11th, 2003. Private Collection, Beverly Hills, California.

Intact. Fine condition, heavily patinated with surface wear, mild encrustation, and light pitting.

Hygeia was the Ancient Greek goddess of health and wellness. Daughter of Asklepios, the god of medicine, Hygeia gave her name to the practice of hygiene, and generally represented preventative medicine rather than allopathic. She had three therapeutic sisters, Panacea (cure-all), Iaso (recovery) and Aceso (healing), who were more representative of curative medicine. People created small votive figures and adorned larger statues of Hygeia with offerings throughout the Roman Empire.

For a closely related example see no. 113 in Comstock and Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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