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Votive sculpture “Woman”

Unknownsecond half of the 20th century

Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Clay votive offerings representing an affliction in miniature had already been sacrificed in antiquity. In the Catholic Church, votive offerings were usually deposited as a plea for recovery or thanks for a cure, and involved threedimensional representations of the respective disorders. Internal organs such as the heart, lung or uterus were frequently carved from wood, votive offerings showing animals or humans often from metal. The production of votive offerings made from wax using wooden moulds has continued to this day.

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  • Title: Votive sculpture “Woman”
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date: second half of the 20th century
  • Location: Greece
  • Physical Dimensions: w5 x h11,5 cm
  • Type: Object
  • Medium: punched sheet metal
  • Inv.-No.: N (51 G) 78/2010, a–b
  • ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018719
  • External Link: Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • Copyright: Text: © Koehler & Amelang Verlag in der Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG / Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / und die Autoren Photo: © Museum Euopäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ute Franz-Scarciglia
Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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