Souvenirs

480 den. (8 €)

The terracotta figurines of Telesphoros are common grave offerings at Stobi in the 1st century BC. Telesphoros is a mysterious deity of the recuperation from illness or injury. In some of the written sources he is also named Euamerion or Akesis. He is represented as a young  men wearing a cloak with a low hood. Sometimes the god is accompanied  by a child, holding his hand. 

 

 

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