Tell Asmar " Standing man " votive sculpture 2750-2600 B. C

Over time, the votive and funerary functions of the sculpture became divorced whilst its attributes were shed and its form became more generic until, in the late sixth century, it could serve a number of uses depending on context and location.

The eternal flame itself would be placed in the center of the grassy plot in a flat, triangular bronze sculpture intended to resemble a votive candle or brazier.

* Hatt, Jean-Jacques ( 1952 ) " Les monuments gallo-romains de Paris, et les origines de la sculpture votive en Gaule romaine.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

A votive crown belonging to Recceswinth ( 653 – 672 ), as found in the treasure of Guarrazar, Spain.

The votive offerings in clay, amber, bronze, ivory and lead found in great profusion within the precinct range, dating from the 9th to the 4th centuries BC, supply invaluable evidence for early Spartan art.

Some of the oldest surviving European ship models have been those of early craft such as galleys, galleons, and possibly carracks, dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries and found occasionally mounted in churches, where they were used in ceremonies to bless ships and those who sailed in them, or as votive offerings for successful voyages or surviving peril at sea, a practice which remained common in Catholic countries until the 19th century.

Deposits of votive objects ( favissae ), removed from the ancient temple from time to time as new ones came in and occupied all the available space, have been found, and considerable remains of buildings belonging to the Vicus Dianae ( among them a triumphal arch and some baths, also a hail with frescoes, representing the goddess herself ready for the chase ) still exist.

6 ), of bringing labor on and of delaying it, and votive offerings to her have been found establishing the continuity of her cult her from Neolithic times, with a revival as late as the Roman period.

Drawing of a Gallo-Roman religion | Gallo-Roman votive altar dedicated to Abellio, found in the village of Garin, Haute-Garonne | Garin, Haute-Garonne, France

Dedications to Coventina and votive deposits were found in a walled area which had been built to contain the outflow from a spring now called " Coventina's Well ".

Matres also appear on votive reliefs and inscriptions in other areas occupied by the Roman army, including southeast Gaul, as at Bibracte ( illustration ); in Spain and Portugal, where some twenty inscriptions are known, among them several ones which include local epithets like a dedication to the Matribus Gallaicis " to the Galician Mothers "; and also in the Romano-Celtic culture of Pannonia, in the form of similar reliefs and inscriptions to Nutrices Augustae, " the august Nurses " found in Roman sites of Ptuj, Lower Styria.

In most cases, the votive stones and altars are not found singularly, but rather in groups around temple buildings and cult centers.

She is usually thought to be identical with Hludana, to whom Roman votive tablets have been found on the Lower Rhine.

In the 9th or 8th century, the name of Bar-Hadad ' Son of Hadad ', king of Aram, is inscribed on his votive basalt stele dedicated to Melqart, found in Bredsh, a village north of Aleppo ( National Museum, Aleppo, accession number KAI 201 ).

Later, Pausanias, viewing votive offerings near the Athenian Acropolis in the 2nd century AD, found among them a Sauromic breastplate.

It is possible that there was local cult of Epona as a large number of clay horse figurines, presumably votive offerings, have been found.

Roman coins, some converted to pendants, and Romano-British brooches have been found deposited as votive offerings at Newgrange.

Another example of Sybaritic luxury is found in the story of Alcimenes of Sybaris, who gave a splendid figured robe as a votive offering to the temple of Lacinian Juno.

The only exception is the Temple of Mithras found in 1954 which still contains many high quality miniature votive sculptures.

In the surrounding water of Flag Fen votive offerings have been found, e. g., daggers broken in half placed on top of each other.

A deliberately incomplete abecedarium found at Hymettos in Attica may have been a votive offering.

The earliest attested water cult site is that at Abini-Teti, where votive offerings dateable to the early Bonnanaro period have been found ; votive offerings at the spring of Sos Malavidos-Orani date to later Bonnanaro.

( These might be votive offerings, similar to figurines of Tiye found in the tomb of Amenhotep III.

The coins and votive tablets found at the site of the temple roughly date the upper limit of Roman control of the pass.

In Germanic areas occupied by the Roman Empire, coins and votive objects dating from the 2nd and 3rd century AD have been found with Latin inscriptions referring to " Hercules ", and so in reality, with varying levels of likelihood, refer to Thor by way of interpretatio romana.

* Heliodorus ( votive erector ), a Greek ambassador who erected famous votive Heliodorus pillar around 110 BC near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India

The fact that these votive inscriptions were made by discharged veterans settling where they were discharged ; i. e., in or near their native villages, indicates a strong Frankish element in the Roman army from the beginning of the Franks. The inscriptions are most frequent in the 3rd century.

Punic tombs have also been discovered, and the votive terra-cottas of a small sanctuary of the Punic period were found near the north coast.

Archeologist Filippo Coarelli has supposed that the object might have been placed in the votive deposit of one of the temples of goddess Fortuna dedicated by king Servius Tullius, perhaps the one known as Fortuna Publica or Citerior, i. e. located on the side of the Quirinal near to Rome.

An Iberian votive deposit was found near Tornabous in the Urgell depicting a holy Iberian warrior defecating on his falcata.

Another is the Visigothic polychrome votive crown ( picture ) of Recceswinth, King of Toledo, found in a votive crown hoard of c. 670 at Fuente de Guarrazar, near Toledo.

" According to Bonheme, the ostraca contains the name ' Tutkheperre [...] Amun | ( Shoshenq MeryAmun )|' written in black ink and was discovered among votive deposits of various dates, starting from the New Kingdom onwards near the First Dynasty ' Tomb of Osiris ' at Abydos in Upper Egypt.

File: The old and the new-- votive offerings-geograph. org. uk-1552319. jpg | Votives at St. Ninian's Cave entrance

Church ex-voto | votive hanging in a church ; the workmanship is somewhat crude, but sufficient to identify as mid-19th-century

Eirene ( Greek goddess ) | Eirene with the infant Ploutos ( Roman copy after the votive statue of Cephisodotus the Elder | Kephisodotos, ca.

Eirene ( Greek goddess ) | Eirene with the infant Ploutos: Roman copy after Cephisodotus the Elder | Kephisodotos ' votive statue, c. 370BCE, in the Agora, Athens

File: Zeniarai Benten Shrine inside. jpg | Rows of tiny votive torii donated by the faithful

A Japanese votive altar, Nanban art | Nanban style.

Representation of the goddess Artemis Orthia in the usual stance of Potnia Theron on an archaic ivory ex-voto | votive offering, ( National Archaeological Museum of Athens )

Shrine of the household deities Lares Familiares | lares in Pompeii, showing the offering altar and a niche for votive images.

Bronze animal statuettes from Olympia, Greece | Olympia, votive offerings, 8th-7th century BC.

An icon of Paraskevi | Saint Paraskevi with Tama ( votive ) | votive offerings hung beside it.

Tama ( votive ) | Tamata ( votive offerings ) left in front of an icon of the Black Madonna in Chania, Crete.

A Japanese votive altar, Nanban art | Nanban style.

File: Macedonian_Museums-89-Arx_Thessaloniknhs-403. jpg | Sculptures and honorary, votive and grave reliefs of the Roman period

File: Altar-Grip-Stave-church-Norway. jpg | Altar with triptych and the hull of a votive ship

File: Grip_stavkyrkje_kyrkjeskip. jpg | The nave and second votive ship seen from the altar