Statues of Hypnos
The word hypnosis comes from Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep. After looking over a dizzying amount of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts, I found his likeness yesterday afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. You can read more about Hypnos in this previous post. In this statue, he is pouring a sleeping potion out of a bottle in his right hand and holding his signature poppies in his left. Unfortunately there was a large window behind his glass case, making it hard to take a decent photo.
