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Modern Description: Crude late 19th c. church in a garden courtyard, fenced/locked, at Evripidou 70, Athens. Protruding from the roof is a ancient monolithic Corinthian column, very likely a free-standing votive rather than part of a building, long known as the pillar of St. John. Possibly associated with a sanctuary of Asklepios, or with the healer hero Toxares. The pious still tie silk ribbons to the column to bind their diseases. Across the street was found a 5th c. CE mosaic, now in the Byzantine Museum. To the north was found a dedication to Apollo, IG II² 3002.
[Judith Binder: Haghios Ioannis Stin Kolonna, Evripidou and Menandrou Sts.: Biris, K. 1966, 44-45 no. 71; EMME II, 1929, 101; A. A. Papagiannopoulos-Palaios, «To Διογένειον Γυμνάσιον,» Polemo 3 (1947) 22-24, fig. 1]
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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