A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 63
atPinara in Lycia, with curious views of a Lycian town, with walls,t-owers and gates. VOTIVE RELIEFS. A votive offering is, in its essence, a present made to a god or toa superior being, in order to secure some favour in the future, or toavert anger for a past offence, or to express gratitude for a… … Fig. 20.—Sepulchral Relief, No. 639. exhibited in this room are offerings made by victors in athletic andother contests. [A group of A^otive offerings of a more personalkind, for cures to diseased parts of the body, etc., are shown in awall-case in the Elgin Room, see p. 41. See also p. 89.1 7*.…
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