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Votive mouth and teeth, Roman, 200 BCE-200 CE
Objects like this were left at healing sanctuaries and other religious sites as offerings to gods such as Asklepios, the Greco-Roman god of medicine. It was intended either to indicate the part of the body that needed help or as thanks for a cure. Made from bronze or terracotta, as in this case, a large range of different votive body parts were made and offered up in their thousands. Although it o…
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- incubation
- votive offering
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- incubation
- votive offering
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Science Museum, London
Source
- L0058490
Identifier
- L0058490
- Science Museum A636148
- cp45uau6
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:42:20.952Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:42:20.952Z