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  • Votive offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast
  • Votive offerings in the form of the face. Apparently terracotta.
  • 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.
  • 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 showing viscera. terracotta. One in the form of a torso, another a medallion. Graeco-Roman.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.
  • Votive offering: foot.
  • Roman votive offering
  • Votive offering: psoriasis (cast).
  • Votive offering: mother and child, Rome.
  • A clay-bakedface. Roman votive offering
  • Votive offering: placenta, terra cotta, Roman.
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering
  • Three Roman votive offering representing faces
  • Clay-backed uterus. Roman votive offering