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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.

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-.

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.

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 offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast

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

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-.

M0003954: Votive offering representing a leg with ulcers

M0001509: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of an arm, with a snake on the back of hand

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

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

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-.

M0003954: Votive offering representing a leg with ulcers

M0001509: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of an arm, with a snake on the back of hand