Search Results: Votive offerings

The ancient Celtic pantheon consisted of over 400 gods and goddesses who represented everything from rivers to warfare. With perhaps the exception of Lugh, the Celtic gods were not universally worshipped across Iron Age Europe but were very...

A collection of objects offered to Lake Guatavita by the Muisca tribe of ancient Colombia. Includes ceramic vessels and is now on display in British Museum, London.

Statue of an Egyptian woman bearing offerings, made from painted fig wood, early 12th dynasty (c. 1950 BCE). Louvre Museum, Paris.

Apulian stemless cup (fragment) depicting a processional dancer bringing cake offerings, c. 350-325 BCE. The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, Reading. acc. no. 22.3.24 In ancient Greece, bringing offerings to gods and goddesses, or deified...

A relief from the temple at Kom Ombo in Egypt depicting Ptolemy VI Philometor (r. 180-145 BCE) making offerings to the gods. Ptolemy can be seen at the far right, holding offerings.

A depiction from the tomb of the vizier Rekhmire showing him and his mother receiving offerings. Rekhmire served under the pharaohs Thutmose III (1458-1425 BCE) and his son Amenhotep II (1425-1400 BCE). (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York...

This fragment of a stela shows two women before tablets of offerings. From Abydos, Late Middle Kingdom, circa 1750 BCE. (National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)

Limestone slab with 14 columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions listing offerings The hieroglyphs on the slab edge read "revered before Anubis upon his mountain, he who is in the embalming-place". The slab dates back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt...

The stone Kernos for food offerings of the collected harvest, the Minoan settlement of Malia, Crete (1650-1450 BCE).

In the religion of the ancient Celts who lived in Iron Age Europe from 700 BCE to 400 CE, certain natural sites like springs, river sources, and groves were held as sacred. These places, as well as some urban sites, often had purpose-built...