On 13th September 2007, the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (the Spanish Mint) issued a series of postage stamps called Mediterranean Archaeology.  The series, which was jointly issued with Greece, is presented as a block sheet with two stamps, which reproduce two different statues of Asclepios, the Greek god of medicine. One of these statues can be found at the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia – Empúries and the other at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

The statue at the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia – Empúries comes from the archaeological site at Empúries, in the town of L’Escala in Girona. The Empúries site is the only one on the Iberian Peninsula which combines the remains of a Greek city (Emporion) with a Roman city (Emporiae) and is a basic point of reference for understanding the legacy of the classical civilisations on our culture. The statue of the Greek god, Asclepius, found on the site, is the most representative symbol of the excavations. It is also a clear exponent of the Greek culture rooted in Emporion since the 6th century BC and which was kept alive during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, thanks to the agreement that the Emporitan Greeks reached with Rome. The statue of Asclepius was found in one of the sanctuaries dedicated to protecting, healing divinities found in the southern sector of the old town centre. It is approximately 2.20 metres high and dates from the Hellenistic period (2nd and 1st centuries BC). It was produced in a Greek workshop somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. It probably reached Empúries through maritime trading, in a period during which the city belonged to the Roman province of Hispania Citerior.

The statue of Asclepios at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is one metre high and is made of Pentelic marble. It was found in Piraeus, and all that remains is the upper torso without arms. The statue is wearing a toga, with the chest semi-exposed and a good head of hair worked into thick curls. The eyes were made of other material and sculpted inwards. It is a Hellenistic piece of work from the 2nd century BC and is a copy of another statue of the Greek god made by Scopas in the 4th century BC.