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	Votive deposit
		A votive deposit or votive offering is an object left in a sacred place for ritual purposes.
		In Europe votive deposits became common in the middle to late Bronze Age.
		In archaeology, votive deposits differ from hoards in that although they may contain similar items, votive deposits were not intended for later recovery.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/v/vo/votive_deposit.html (213 words)

	Glass Votive Candle Holder
		A votive candle is a small, typically white, candle, burnt as a votive offering in a religious ceremony.
		In Europe votive deposits date to the Neolithic with polished axe hoards, reaching a peak in the late Bronze Age.
		Votive sites are sites where animal sacrifice in the form of bones deposited in a split in a block of stone or beneath a cairn are made.
	www.frozenup.com /pages9/37/glass-votive-candle-holder.html (1178 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.29
		As can be expected, votive deposits were part of the archaeological remains of the city, and we are indebted to Mario Torelli and Annamaria Comella for their efforts in making such deposits known and published in the Corpus delle stipi votive in Italia.
		As presented by the authors of this volume, the votive deposit from the lower terrace of the acropolis at Cuma was first discovered and excavated in 1911 under the direction of Vittorio Spinazzola and his assistant, Guido Scifoni.
		In all, the votives indicate the importance of social roles, male and female, in the execution of the cult.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-09-29.html (1320 words)

	Schiavi d'Abruzzo archaeological site
		Ritual purification fires would be lit on the piles of holy objects, which archaeologists conventionally define as votive deposits.
		In the past, excavations in the area behind the minor temple discovered a votive deposit that yielded a huge amount of material relative to the life of the sanctuary.
		In 2004, a second deposit was discovered, pre-dating the construction of the main temple.
	www.beniarcheologiciabruzzo.it /schiavi_english/main.asp?idMenu=stipe (147 words)

	e-Keltoi: Volume 6, Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula, by Francisco Marco ...
		In fact, finds of votive deposits containing swords, helmets and lances like those discovered in the Huelva River or at the estuary of the River Tajo, are actually not very common.
		The votive deposit of Garvâo (Ourique, Baixo Alentejo), where a box containing a human skull with signs of trepanation was uncovered, has been assumed to be a sacrificial foundation ritual (Beirâo et al.
		Certain deposits observed on other sites of the Iberian Peninsula such as Garvâo, El Amarejo, Alhonoz, or structures like the one found in Illescas (a sanctuary with a bench made of adobe, decorated by reliefs) or in Peña Negra de Crevillente (Berrocal 1994: 276) might be evidence of ritual banquets of the above-described kind.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/6_6/marco_simon_6_6.html (15759 words)

	FRILFORD TEMPLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The religious needs of this community were served by a simple timber-built shrine in which the main uprights were retained in two rows of three post-holes aligned north-south.
		Beneath the central post of the westernmost row was buried an iron plough-share, evidently a votive foundation deposit, perhaps indicating that the temple was dedicated to a deity involved with fertility and/or agriculture.
		This sacred timber building was later enclosed by a horseshoe-shaped ditch approached along a causeway from the north-west, resembling the form of a 'henge monument'.
	www.roman-britain.org /places/frilford.htm (333 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.11.22
		The material is both rich and varied, and is presented in succinct catalogue entries, beginning with the pottery, followed by terracotta figurines, metal objects, objects of glass paste, amber, ivory and bone, and a solitary silver coin.
		Among the various classes of votives, 37% was found in the antecella, 28% in the cella proper, 27% in the adyton, a mere 5% in the pronaos, while the remaining 3% represents sporadic finds; this is succinctly illustrated in a pie-chart on p.
		The result is a proto-colonial tour de force, combining the cult of the hero, the temple at Campora and its votive deposit, the Greek colonists -- particularly the rise of a Sybaritan "empire", and the subsequent hegemony of an "alliance" headed by Kroton -- with the indigenous population.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-11-22.html (1809 words)

	The Mycenaean and Geometric Age
		There was no rifling of the tomb, nor a second burial: the objects were deposited to honor ancestors whom nobody could remember.
		It looked as if the roof had caved in; but instead of pilfering the contents of the thus-exposed tombs, the pious Geometric people, descendants of five centuries, added objects of their time to the ancient funerary equipment.
		In the absence of a more reasonable answer to the startling state of things Blegen, as we have seen, arrived at the conclusion that the eighth or seventh century inhabitants of the place were devotees of an ancestors' cult.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /heraion.html (2101 words)

	Artistcrafts.com--Polymer Clay Art by Laurel Nevans
		They are available in wholesale lots for $45 per dozen ($25 deposit).
		Please visit our candle galleries to view representative samples of our votive candle holders.
		They are available in wholesale lots for $72 per dozen assorted sizes/patterns/types (Deposit: $36).
	www.artistcrafts.com /wholesale/miscwholesale.htm (464 words)

	CA I indice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		East of the room d was an open air area (e) in which the bottom and the feet of a bronze tripod plunged in earth (XXX-4) were found.
		In the north-east corner of room a, in a pit excavated under the pavement, there was a bridge-spouted jar (XXIII-l): it is probably a votive deposit in relationship with the construction of the house.
		The presenee of cups decorated with foliate band and with triple wavy line permit however - according with the examination of other deposits in the same area - to fix this event during the LM I B, probably at the end of the period.
	www.unict.it /cac-ct/Pubb/Mon1ab.htm (1827 words)

	Hamezi,Sitia.Archaeological Sites in eastern Crete.Holidays, accommodation in east Crete
		Along the left of this is the covered conduit, and opening off the left is the area 12 (also paved) which may have been an open court onto which the surrounding rooms opened.
		In he raised eastern part of the court is the well-like structure (12a) in which the conduit ends; thus it seems that it was indeed a well or cistern and not a deposit for votive offerings.
		From area 16 one passes through to room 4 which, if it is accepted hat the building was a house, must have been a household shrine as at 4a a movable hearth was found, and in front of that, parts of a clay altar or offering table.
	www.crete-today.com /a-hamezi.htm (1007 words)

	CMA Exhibition Feature : More Images from Magna Graecia
		Aphrodite, goddess of love, wears a draped polos headdress while holding her son, Eros, in the crook of her folded arm.
		Found in a votive deposit at Medma, her pose takes on a particularly religious aspect -- a mother and child composition comparable with the Madonna and Child iconography of later European art.
		The unusual pose of the figures and attention to the detailed expressions on their faces marks this statuette as a uniquely beautiful work by an artist aware of trends in classical art as defined by mainland Greece, especially compared with other terracottas produced almost mechanically en masse as votive dedications.
	www.clemusart.com /exhibcef/mgtampa/khtml/3051553.html (1347 words)

	Irish Scabbards
		Three of the most extraordinary of these scabbards were found in the bog Lisnacrogher, and are usually called by the same name, due to their close resemblance to each other.
		The earliest centers of high-quality metalwork in the country were almost certainly in the northeast, in Co. Antrim, where good iron deposits might well have been a factor enhancing the importance of this region in the earlier Iron Age (Raftery, 165).
		Lisnacrogher may have been a votive deposit like Llyn Cerrig Bach or La Tene, or it may have been a crannog (lake dwelling).
	www.unc.edu /celtic/catalogue/scabbards/index.html (4059 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Votive deposit
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		Patrons of Athenian votive monuments of the archaic and classical periods: three studies.
		East Chisenbury: ritual and rubbish at the British Bronze Age-Iron Age transition.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Votive+deposit (238 words)

	Architecture and History - Archaeological Area of Roselle - Casa Olivo Farm Holidays in Tuscany Maremma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On the north hill, although the extensive modifications made in the I st century A.D. (erection of the amphitheatre), there is an alignment of walls belonging to structures dated from different periods (Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic ages); it is, thus, likely to suggest a continuation of the urban scheme.
		In the area of the valley bottom, remains originally belonging to a votive deposit and frequent discovering of fine imported pottery confirm an endurance of life in the city of 5th and 4th centuries B.C. The Roman conquest in 294 B.C. by the Consul Lucius Postumius Megellus, is mentioned by Livius.
		Archaeology does not support this date and the evidence of the first two centuries after the conquest is scant.
	www.casaolivo.com /roselle_eng.htm (1081 words)

	MVAP 2006 Trench PC 28 Caitlin Vacanti
		This season we are opening Trench PC 28 primarily in order to investigate the remaining portions of the votive deposit found last season in PC 27.
		Above the deposit we had uncovered a feature with gray and fl soil, composed of organic remains and a high concentration of ceramics, both coarseware and fineware.
		Nevertheless, the vast extent of cover tiles in the deposition may validate our theory that floor packing can be identified due to their absence: perhaps someone had already picked through this destruction debris in order to find pan tiles, abandoning curved tiles for those which would create a level surface.
	www.smu.edu /poggio/06_pc28.html (1111 words)

	Meroe: palace M 294 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Török 1997a: 152-161 argued that this was the site of the Amun temple of the Napatan period.
		The objects found perhaps belong to the temple treasures or a votive deposit.
		The later building on the site M 294 might then be a palace built over an earlier sacred precinct.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /nubia/m294.html (108 words)

	CA I indice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first one, attested during Middle Minoan II period, is composed of a pair of plates one set on top of the other, deposited under the floor level.
		Different rituals are considered for the two kinds of deposits, one related to domestic functions (the pair of plates) and another one related to building (‘foundation deposits’ consisting of the little jar and conical cup).
		Whether these different kinds of deposit may be called conventionally ‘foundation deposits’, or aspects of different rituals (related to building and to dwelling), they may be considered, in any case, to manifest the articulate complexity, diachronic and/or synchronic, of Minoan ritual.
	www.unict.it /cac-ct/Pubb/CA3ab.htm (3028 words)

	Imagines Italicae: Sample Entry: Rapino Bronze
		Among the results of recent excavations is the establishment of the fact that one area of the cave contained a votive deposit, including pottery, terracottas and probably coins of the Hellenistic period (Galli (1939); d'Ercole et al.
		6, may have been displaced from their original context, but it is likely that the coins mentioned by Guarini (1841) formed part of a votive deposit: 'Rapini, Aprutii citerioris oppiduli, ingentes inter ruinas, quae Civitatausa, vel tansa vulgo audiunt, tabella aenea literata nuper detecta...
		If we suppose that both the coins and the Rapino Bronze formed part of the votive deposit, we should conclude that it is to be dated in the third quarter of the third century BC.
	icls.sas.ac.uk /imaginesit/samples/rapino.html (1367 words)

	Cave Company Electric Votive Candles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		electric votive candle stands are elegant and sturdy furniture.
		You simply have to plug the stand into any regular wall outlet and it is ready to operate.
		To use it, the faithful just have to deposit their offerings and press on the button of their chosen candle: it will burn for the full preset duration.
	go2ashlea.com /caveco/cavecandle.htm (170 words)

	Votive - 100 Candles - Candles, Candle Holders, Gel Candles, Scented (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		votive deposit A votive deposit or votive offering is an object left in a sacred place for ritual purposes.
		You may request that a 7 day votive candle be lit for your special Please remember someone special today by asking for a 7 day votive candle to be lit.
		Michael Aram's "grass" votive brings back some of the lazy enjoyment of lawns.
	byindex.com /?q=votive (308 words)

	Ex-voto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or divinity.
		It is given in fulfilment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow made") or in gratitude or devotion.
		Votive tablets to Saint Mary in Himmerod Abbey, Germany
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ex-voto (227 words)

	Objekte PA 09 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The hoard of Lake Balaton, Hungary, includes apart from 20 fragments of different objects 512 bronze sickles.
		Archaeologists distinguish between treasure troves, votive deposits and deposits of traders and casters.
		The hoard shown above was possibly buried as a votive deposit.
	www.nhm-wien.ac.at /NHM/prehist/Collection/Objekte_PA_09_E.html (117 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.06.23
		These exchanges show that the streams of influence and traffic were flowing back and forth between the indigenous populations and the foreign colonists of the north coast.
		These exchanges, the precise nature of which cannot be verified, account for phenomena like the deposition of an indigenous jug (cat.
		By the second half of the 6th century, Colle could feature a sanctuary with elements of an undeniably Greek flavor in terms of structural materials (rectangular plan, masonry, usage of architectural terracottas produced in a Himeran workshop such as cat.
	tech1.dccs.upenn.edu /bmcr/2006/2006-06-23.html (1901 words)

	MVAP 2004 Robert Vander Poppen Week 1
		The western end of the trench produced an excellent record of the destruction of the third phase building atop the site along with very deep strata from the earliest phases of the site.
		In this area last season we excavated a number of finds associated with an early votive deposit.
		The pit associated with this votive deposit was then enclosed with a moulded podium block which may be from the earliest phases of the sites.
	www.smu.edu /poggio/vanderpoppen_1.html (329 words)

	Grave goods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They are usually personal possessions, supplies to smooth the deceased's journey into the afterlife or offerings to the gods.
		Grave goods are a type of votive deposit.
		Most Grave goods recovered by archaeologists consist of inorganic objects such as pottery and stone and metal tools but there is evidence that organic objects were also placed in tombs although they do not survive as well.
	grave-goods.iqnaut.net (97 words)

	Handmade Museum Quality Swords
		have deposited items in these bogs by accident or more commonly as an 0ffering (votive deposit).
		First excavated in the 1700’s, the Nydam Bog contains four primary groups of deposits that include 2 ships (the renowned Nydam boat and the Pine boat), swords, shields, lances, spears, axes, arrows, personal items, and knives.
		Seaxes have always interested me, so when I became familiar with the Nydam find, I was immediately drawn to the seaxes.
	www.albion-swords.com /inhouse/eric-gallery.htm (2562 words)

	Classical Backpacking in Greece - Peloponnese - Menelaion
		A rich deposit of offerings from the late 8th and early 7th century were found NE of the later shrine.
		In the late 7th century, a monumental structure was constructed at the site of the shrine.
		Catling, R.W.V. "A Votive Deposit of Seventh-Century Pottery from the Menelaion." in Philolakon: Lakonian Studies in Honour of Hector Catling, ed.
	www.missouri.edu /~daw262/mene.html (1166 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The coins are a portion of the original votive deposit of sixty-six bronze coins of the Kushan kings Vima Kadphises (reigned around AD 110-20), Kanishka I and Huvishka.
		Coins commonly form part of the relic deposit in Buddhist stupas.
		Errington and J. Cribb (eds), The Crossroads of Asia: transformation in image and symbol in the art of ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan (Cambridge, Ancient India and Iran Trust, 1992), pp.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/print?OBJ4140 (299 words)

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