A Roman marble statue of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, standing in the Rotunda of the Altes Museum in Berlin as part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin's antiquities collection. The god is shown bearded and draped, leaning on his defining attribute, a staff with a single serpent coiled around its length, the emblem still used today as a symbol of medicine. No inventory number or precise date is given on the museum's public-facing record as read; the statue is catalogued in the collection as a Roman-period figure of the god.
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The statue's sole subject, on permanent display at the Altes Museum captioned as Asclepius with his serpent-entwined staff.
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