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Two Kassite Votive Inscriptions

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1968
The first of the two inscriptions published here was inscribed, in Sumerian, on the back of a terra-cotta dog 1 by one Ninurta-resiiu, gatammU 2 of the E-u-gal under King Nazi-MaruttaA. The second was inscribed, in Akkadian, by the same gentleman at a later stage in his career-he was then ne-s'akkcu 3 of Enlil-, on a clay quadrangular prism.4 The dog ...
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Votive Coins in Delian Inscriptions

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1883
In the very important Delian inscriptions of which one is published by M. Homolle in the sixth volume of the Bulletin dc Correspondance Hellénique, mention is made among the votive offerings preserved in the temple of Apollo of several sorts of coins. In his comments upon these mentions, both in the inscription which he publishes, and in others which ...
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Votive Inscriptions from Ras Shamra

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1941
Chinese, Siamese and Lao -ais represented in 0. B., Bu., and L. by what is written here as -a-: 92) 0. B. dzag "robbery," M dz'ak "robber" (949); 93) 0. B. dah "meadow," Lao dah "plain, the country"; 94) 0. B. dhahs (pf.), pres. dhah-ba "to be out of breath; to fear, to be terrified," S.
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Hermes as Visible in Votive Inscriptions

2019
The chapter presents a corpus of votive inscriptions to Hermes. Who dedicated to the god, for what reasons, and to which gods was he associated? It comments on chronological and geographical aspects and proceeds to discuss some themes visible in the collected material.
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Painted Votive Plaques and an Early Inscription from Aegina

The Annual of the British School at Athens, 1954
This article is intended to serve as an introduction to the study of painted votive plaques; not that such a study is by any means novel, but since Otto Benndorf's published work on them the amount of material known has increased, and further consideration of them both as painted objects and as dedications seems desirable.
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Inscription votive découverte dans les dernières fouilles d’Alise-Sainte-Reine

Comptes-rendus des séances de l année - Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1908
Héron de Villefosse Antoine. Inscription votive découverte dans les dernières fouilles d’Alise-Sainte-Reine. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 52ᵉ année, N. 7, 1908. pp. 498-500.
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Votive inscriptions in Linear A

2002
Paper discusses votive inscriptions in the Bronze Age Cretan Linear A script still undeciphered. Votive inscriptions on libation tablets, votive cups, a ladle, a figurine, axes, silver pins and a golden ring, are continious texts and should offer some ideas on the sintax of the language as well as of the ritual cotext in which they were used.
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Visualized rituals and dedicatory inscriptions on votive offerings to the nymphs

Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 2008
This article explores the religious meaning of Archaic and Classical dedications with images of rituals (e.g. sacrificial procession, libation) and dedicatory inscriptions. I argue that these objects ought to be treated as meaningful expressions of individuals’ piety rather than as reflections of actual cult practices.
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Excavations at Sparta, 1924–1928: II.—Votive Inscriptions from the Acropolis

The Annual of the British School at Athens, 1930
Among the votive inscriptions discovered during the excavations of 1924–27 by far the most numerous are those on vase-fragments, which number upwards of one hundred and twenty, in contrast to the modest total of thirty-four yielded by the previous campaigns on the Acropolis in 1907–08.
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Votive Inscriptions on the Sculptures of Early Medieval Samatata-Harikela, Bengal

Religions of South Asia, 2011
In this paper, I attempt to look into the patterns of social patronage to Buddhism and Brahmanism in the Samatata-Harikela subregion of early medieval Bengal through the prism of votive inscriptions on sculptures. I have also looked into some of the social and religious processes that were in operation in this part of early medieval Bengal.
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