Votive offering

pilgrimage site in northern Lithuania

type of religious offering, obejct displayed or deposted in a sacred place

city gate

three golden plaques inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text ca. 500 B.C.

Hebrew inscription

Lithuanian folk art tradition

large canoe type vessel dated to 350 found in Hjortspring Mose at Als, Denmark

divine mercy image

archeological find composed of twenty-six votive crowns and gold crosses from a site in Guadamur, prov. of Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

model of a ship in a church building

thumb|votive paintings of Mexico|Mexican votive painting of 1911; the man survived an attack by a bull, attributed to the care of [[Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos]] thumb|La Rochelle [[slave ship Le saphir, ex-voto in the Saint Louis Cathedral in La Rochelle, 1741]]

archaic painted wooden tablets found in Pitsa cave, Corinthia (Greece)

treasury in Delphi, Greece

treasury in Delphi, Greece

type of votive offering in Christianity

religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest

Godič (; ) is a village on the left bank of the Kamnik Bistrica River in the Municipality of Kamnik in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

tree used to make votive offerings

archaeological site at Øster Sottrup, Denmark

collective name for two bilingual Phoenician marble cippi, dated to the 2nd century BCE, that were unearthed in Malta under undocumented circumstances and were seminal in the deciphering of the Phoenician alphabet and language.

Bog and iron age deposit site in north Germany

painting by Titian

votive offering in Medieval Europe

Celtic archaeological discovery

Reitia (Venetic: 𐌓𐌄:𐌉:𐌕𐌉:𐌀) was a goddess, one of the best known deities of the Adriatic Veneti of northeastern Italy.

archaeological open-air museum in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

reservoir in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK

2 bronze helmets found near Veksø, Denmark

lake in Anglesey, Wales, UK

Roman mosaic found in Israel

cave in Greece

building at Delphi in ancient times

ruined building complex in ancient Olympia, Greece

Artaius is a Celtic epithet applied to the Roman god Mercury during the Romano-Celtic period. It is known from a single inscription from Beaucroissant in the Isère:

column

Roman Catholic church in Malta

cemetery in Livorno, Italy

statuettes found in ancient Phoenician temples

mummified animal

phoenician votive thrones

ancient monument in Skanderborg Municipality (51311)

frame|right|The silver Senuna statue recovered in 2002 Senuna was a Celtic goddess worshipped in Roman Britain. She was unknown until a cache of 26 votive offerings to her were discovered in 2002 in an undisclosed field at Ashwell End in Hertfordshire by metal detectorist Alan Meek. Her imagery shows evidence of syncretism between a pre-Roman goddess with the Roman Minerva (for a parallel, cf. Sulis Minerva, the Romano-British goddess worshipped at Bath).

tibetan clay votive plaques

4th-century Christian votive object found in Romania

painting by Philippe de Champaigne

thumb|120px|The Holy Crown of Hungary having pendilia. thumb|120px|Votive crown of the Visigoth King [[Recceswinth († 672), part of the Treasure of Guarrazar.]] Pendilia (singular pendilium; from Latin pendulus, hanging) or pendoulia (the Greek equivalent), are pendants or dangling ornaments hanging from a piece of metalwork such as a crown, votive crown, crux gemmata, or kamelaukion, and are a feature of Early Medieval goldsmith work. On crosses the pendilia may include the letters alpha and omega, and on votive offerings, which were often designed to be hung over altars and where pendilia ar

building in Rome, Italy

XVIII century monstance