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Asclepius (Wikipedia)

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A Wikipedia article on Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing. The article infobox illustrates him with a Roman marble statue on display in the Altes Museum in Berlin, showing his standard attribute, a staff with a single serpent coiled around it.

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Reliability Tier
3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here only for the statue's subject and museum attribution, corroborated independently by the Wikimedia Commons photographer record for the same photograph.
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Publisher
Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius
Source Type
encyclopedia
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Asclepius, Deities

This source names Asclepius directly: "A Wikipedia article on Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing."

Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)

This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Denominations, 1 claims: 1 general references.
  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.

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6

Sacred Sites

General References

2

Sacred Sites

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