Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
Anatomical votives are religious offerings that are made to look like body parts and are dedicated in exchange for healing. In many cases, they are dedicated to intermediary figures as a way to bridge the worlds of human and divine. There is evidence that Anatomical votives have been offered in Italy from the middle of the first millennia BCE to the present. This paper examines Etruscan, Greco-Roman, and Christian cults in order to explore continuity and change in this practice over time within Italy.
Recommended Citation
Morehouse, Lindsay R., "Dismemberment and Devotion: Anatomical Votive Dedication in Italian Popular Religion" (2012). Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects. 17.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/classics_honors/17
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