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FIG. 1. VIEW OF THE TEMPLE OF AESCULAPIUS ON THE ISLAND OF COS.
As it must have appeared to the traveler, in the third century B. C.,
on his approach by sea to the port of that island.
Reconstitution based upon recent photographs and upon surveys by Herzog (Koische Forschungen, 1904).
(Courtesy of Prof. Dr. Meyer-Steineg, of Jena, Germany.)
