Pinax
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In the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax is a votive tablet of painted wood, or terracotta, marble or bronze relief that served as a votive object deposited in a
Pinax on the south wall of the exedra in the House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii
One of the Pitsa panels, 6th century BCE, paint on wood, showing an animal sacrifice in Corinth
Terracotta pinax of Persephone and Hades from Locri (Museo Nazionale di Reggio Calabria)
Pottery kiln, Penteskouphia
Ex-voto
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An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or a divinity, given in fulfillment of a vow or in gratitude or devotion. The term is usually restricted to Christian examples.
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…Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Ex-voto Grave goods…
Mexican votive painting of 1911; the man survived an attack by a bull, attributed to the care of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos
La Rochelle slave ship Le saphir, ex-voto in the Saint Louis Cathedral in La Rochelle, 1741
Ex-voto in the church of Notre Dame de la Garoupe, Antibes, France. It thanks Notre Dame de Bon Port for her help during a shipwreck in the Bay of Bengal in 1857
Votive tablets to Saint Mary in Himmerod Abbey, Germany