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Concept

Votive offerings

Images

  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • M0015412: Large sculpted foot made of porphyry, Roman, 1st Century
  • 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-.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Belgium: pilgrims praying at a shrine of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Engraving, 191-.

    | Date: 1910-1919 | Reference: 567345i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Belgium: people kneeling before Saint Leonard of Noblac. Engraving, 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919] | Reference: 567334i
    • Student dissertations

    Inscribed healing votives in ancient Roman Britain / Costas Paraskevaides.

    Paraskevaides, Costas. | Date: 2006
    • Pictures

    The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche arrives at a temple of Juno, but from deference to Venus, Juno refuses to help her to find Cupid. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

    Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592. | Date: [between 1500 and 1599] | Reference: 2944965i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0003954: Votive offering representing a leg with ulcers

    | Date: 11 July 1934 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/3
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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