Epidauros Museum

The Museum at Epidauros includes a partial reconstruction of the Tholos. It shows that the circular cella was surrounded by 26 Doric columns and had 14 Corinthian columns round its internal wall. In the center of the floor, which was patterned in two colors, was an opening leading down to the basement. The elaborate nature of the decoration can be judged from the coffered ceiling, the high quality of the work by the Corinthian capital carved by Polykleitos himself. The other rooms of the museum contain inscriptions, surgical instruments, statues of Asklepios (some of them casts) and architectural fragments from the propylaia and the temple of Asklepios.