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Votive visera offering, 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. In this example an individual’s intestines and abdominal organs are represented. Made from bronze or terracotta, as in this case, a large range of diffe…
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
- L0058496
Identifier
- L0058496
- Science Museum A636802
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Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:26:41.839Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:26:41.839Z