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Votive Offering

A gift dedicated to a god in fulfillment of a vow — statues, weapons, tablets, body-part models, or treasures left at a sanctuary in thanks for prayers answered.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  3. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  4. Quaestiones Graecae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  5. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  6. Description of Greece
    · 180
    explains
  7. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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