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  • Roman offerings: models of uterus.
  • Votive offerings and marble church plates offering thanks: includes offerings shaped like body parts, hearts and an agnus dei image. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?).
  • Votive offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast
  • Votive offerings in the form of the face. Apparently terracotta.
  • The Chinese Fox-Genius (Hu) with retainers bringing offerings. Gouache.
  • Votive offerings in the form of male genitals. Apparently terracotta.
  • Votive offerings in the form of male genitals. Apparently terracotta.
  • Votive offerings in the form of the scalp. Apparently terracotta.
  • Votive offerings in the form of the eyes. Apparently made of terracotta.
  • Votive offerings in the form of the hand and forearm. Apparently terracotta.
  • Phra Malai receives alms offerings from lay people (detail of the right side)
  • EA. - Babylonian Deity of Healing. Fish deity with mystic offerings, in British Museum.
  • Servants bearing funeral offerings. Tomb of VI Dynasty Period, Kasr el Syad, Plate 36.
  • Sarawak: a man placing offerings to the omen-birds on poles in the ground. Photograph.
  • The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Dorigny after C. Maratta.
  • Votive offerings showing viscera. terracotta. One in the form of a torso, another a medallion. Graeco-Roman.
  • A religious figure possibly Shiva being offered food and offerings by two worshippers and two angels. Gouache drawing.
  • The three kings bring offerings to the infant Jesus. Engraving by J. Sadeler after G. van Groeningen.
  • Votive offerings: small paintings, mainly of accident and recovery scenes, displayed at the Ethnographic Museum, Palermo, Sicily. Photograph, 1929.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Noah burning offerings on an altar after the end of the deluge. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • Ceres (Demeter) on a chariot drawn by lions receives offerings from peasants; representing harvest. Etching by G. Zocchi after P. da Cortona.
  • Ceres (Demeter) on a chariot drawn by lions receives offerings from peasants; representing harvest. Etching by G. Zocchi after P. da Cortona.
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, 1839.
  • An altar, surmounted by a statue of the Virgin surrounded by votive offerings; in the foreground, sick or troubled people praying. Woodcut, 16--.
  • The Castalian spring at Delphi; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by F.R. Hay, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
  • The cave of Trophonius in Livadeia, Greece; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by Elizabeth Byrne, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians of North America. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.
  • A four armed deity and three priests sit facing twelve sacrificial fires and make offerings to the god of fire, Agni. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.