ext_17691 ([identity profile] malkhos.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] porphyry 2008-06-08 03:53 pm (UTC)

Actually, the temple priesthood seems to have been responsible for putting votive inscriptions with the stories of those healed by Asclepius, as a form of advertising, the patients would dedicate a statue for the healed body part by hanging it on a tree in the shrine.

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