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Wns an ‫؟‬٨lepieion fondel ‫»ﺍ‬y the Seleuids

it is believed to have reached to the god were used elsewhere

Pergamon at ca. B.C. Most as well. Votive offerings had the

probably, it reached Tylos and the form of either the aflicted organ

Gulf at some later date than this. or the image of the god himself,

At os the sanctuary of Aslepios and were hang on the walls of the

was built in 357 B.C. and was sanctuary. The plaque found next

the most prominent place of the to the sea tower can, therefore, be a

Aslepiades, a close order of testimony of the existence at Tylos

priests thought to be descendants of the cult of Aslepios and of an

of Aslepios. The sanctuary was Aslepieion similar to the ones

protected by asyhum. It reached found at Epidauros, Athens, os,

the height of its prominence and Pergamon, Dor and elsewhere. It

impotrance during the Ptolemaic is not unreasonable for the cult to

days.The Aslepieion at Pergamon have travelled that far to the east

consisted of various temples, especiallyinanarchiipelagicdistrict

the ifrst one being the temple of such as Tylos and the islands'.

Aslepios Soter. The sanctuary of Tylos was situated in the centre of

Aslepios was approached along this district serving as a Seleuid

an 82 metres colonnaded and strategic base for navigation and

paved sacred road. It was famous supervision of trade. It would be

for the waters of the sacred spring, reasonable to expect for a healing

where patients could bathe. and curative sanctuary and cult

It is quite probable that the to have existed there to tae care

brone plaque found in Bahrain is of sic transit sailors and traders,

a votive plaque dedicated to the as well as the local and regional

god by a gratified patient, who communities. We also now that

was healed at a sanctuayr of the apatr from os and Pergamon, the
god on the island. In his boo cult of Aslepios had also moved

Chraacters, published in 319 B.C., to other eastenr locations in the
Theophrastos mentions a person Mediterranean lieEphesos,Troad,
who dedicated a bronze votive Ptolemaic Egypt and ilii.a
plaque toAslepios.(2)hTerefore, Futrhermore, there is evidence that
brone votive plaques dedicated besides, Dor, the cult of Aslepios

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