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  • M0007209: Close up view of six votive tablets in the Santuario della Madonna dei Bagni, Deruta
  • M0007210: View of interior wall showing votive tablets in the Santuario della Madonna dei Bagni, Deruta
  • M0007211: View of interior pillar showing votive tablets in the Santuario della Madonna dei Bagni, Deruta
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Chapel of Votive Tablets. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Chapel of Votive Tablets. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
  • M0007212: View of interior arch and pillar showing votive tablets in the Santuario della Madonna dei Bagni, Deruta
  • Votive offerings in the form of the face. Apparently terracotta.
  • Votive offering in form of an ear.
  • Votive offerings in the form of the eyes. Apparently made of 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 hand and forearm. Apparently terracotta.
  • Votive offerings in the form of the scalp. Apparently terracotta.
  • 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.
  • Japanese funeral customs: in the house of the dead man, relatives share a meal with a Buddhist monk. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).