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Short title	L0058488 Terracotta votive figure of a young infant, Roman, 200
Author	Wellcome Library, London
Headline	L0058488 Terracotta votive figure of a young infant, Roman, 200 BCE-2
Copyright holder	Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Image title	L0058488 Terracotta votive figure of a young infant, Roman, 200 BCE-2 Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Objects like this were often left at healing sanctuaries and other religious sites as offerings to gods such as Asklepios, the Greco-Roman god of medicine. Usually as a plea for help at times of ill health or as thanks for a cure, this offering of a young swaddled infant may indicate a sick child who needs healing or was perhaps given in the hope that a woman might become pregnant. Made from bronze or terracotta, as in this case, a large range of different votives were made and offered up in their thousands. Although it originated in earlier cultures, this practice became very popular in Roman Italy – particularly between the 400s and 100s BCE. maker: Unknown maker Place made: Roman Republic and Empire made: 200 BCE - 200 CE Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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