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  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Wax ex-voto of head. Gash in forehead and blood from nose. Musee Etnographique, Palermo.
  • Relief: offering to Archinos to Amphiaraos
  • 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.
  • Belgium: pilgrims praying at a shrine of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Engraving, 191-.
  • Ex-voto: page of illustrations from Cabanes, Moeurs intimes du passe. 11 votive tablets.
  • Wax ex-voto. Full face, head. Girl with markings on forehead. Musee Etnographique, Palermo.
  • Two votive pictures.
  • An altar, surmounted by a statue of the Virgin surrounded by votive offerings; in the foreground, sick or troubled people praying. Woodcut, 16--.
  • Votive offering: foot.
  • Saint Antony of Padua. Line engraving by S. Sondermayr.
  • Votive tablets in the Church of Santa Marie de Bagni. Deruta. General view.
  • The Castalian spring at Delphi; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by F.R. Hay, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
  • Roman ex-voto offering (?obstetrical) found in Suffolk.
  • Votive bas-relief at top two prophylactic eyes. Plaster cast of original. Found at temple of Anphiarus near Oropos, Attic art, detail work of IV century. Greece, Aesculapius
  • Votive offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast
  • Votive offering: psoriasis (cast).
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • Votive offerings showing viscera. terracotta. One in the form of a torso, another a medallion. Graeco-Roman.
  • Votive tablets in the Church of Santa Marie de Bagni. Deruta.
  • Belgium: people kneeling before Saint Leonard of Noblac. Engraving, 191-.
  • Wax ex-voto, stomach wounds on each side. Musee Etnographique, Palermo.
  • Saint Antony Abbot. Woodcut.
  • Saint Antony Abbot. Woodcut.
  • Wax ex-voto. Full face, head, very broad features. Musee Etnographique, Palermo.
  • Votive tablets in the Church of Santa Marie de Bagni. Deruta. Pillar showing 18 tablets.
  • Wax ex-voto of two heads left covered with spots and right with growth over right eye. Musee Etnographique, Palermo.
  • 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.
  • De donariis ac tabellis votivis liber singularis / [Jacopo Filippo Tomasini].
  • Wax votes: wall covered with ex-voto pictures. In the Musee Etnographique, Palmero.