Stories
- In pictures
Votive offerings for healing
Votive offerings, known as ex-votos, have been a vibrant part of devotional practice since ancient times and, Louisa McKenzie suggests, they still have a place in the secular world of today.
- Article
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
Catalogue
- Student dissertations
Inscribed healing votives in ancient Roman Britain / Costas Paraskevaides.
Paraskevaides, Costas.Date: 2006- Books
Bodies of evidence : ancient anatomical votives past, present, and future / edited by Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, Emma-Jayne Graham, the Open University.
Date: 2020- Books
Eye votives in Greek antiquity / Wolfgang Jaeger.
Jaeger, Wolfgang.Date: 1988- Archives and manuscripts
M0001915: Aesculapius and Hygeia, relief stone tablet votives with 2 suppliants
Date: May 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/4Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Eye votives in the Asklepieion of ancient Corinth / S. Chaviara-Karahaliou.
Chaviara-Karahaliou, S.Date: 1990