Votive viscera, probably Roman, 200 BC-200 AD.
Image number: 10284981
Natural and supernatural medicine existed side by side in Rome, as in ancient Greece. Votive offerings were gifts given to the gods in prayer. These would often be in the form or representation of the injured or diseased part of the body and would be left at the temple of a god - as in the case of the abdominal organs shown here.
- Image number:
- 10284981
- Credit:
- Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
- Date taken:
- 12 January 2004 15:45
- Image rights:
- Science Museum
