Votive offering, hair and scalp
- Made:
- 100 BCE-79 CE in Italy
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Votive scalp with hair, bronze, reputedly from Pompeii, 100BC-79AD
This votive offering is in the shape of a scalp with hair. Anatomical votives such as 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.
Details
- Category:
- Classical & Medieval Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A634931
- Materials:
- bronze
- Measurements:
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overall: 66 mm x 105 mm x 71 mm, .28 kg
- type:
- votive hair
- credit:
- Loan, Wellcome Trust
