Bodies of Evidence

Jane Draycott is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Ancient Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on health and well-being in antiquity. She has published on a wide range of subjects relating to the history and archaeology of medicine. Emma-Jayne Graham is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Roman Italy, with a particular interest in the treatment of the body and its representation in material culture. She has published on mortuary practices, infant health and death, sensory experience and the materiality of votive religion.

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Introduction: Debating the Anatomical Votive

Emma-Jayne Graham and Jane Draycott

Chapter 1: Corpora in Connection: Anatomical Votives and the Confession Stelai of Lydia and Phrygia

Justine Potts

Chapter 2: Partible Humans and Permeable Gods: Anatomical Votives and Personhood in the Sanctuaries of Central Italy

Emma-Jayne Graham

Chapter 3: Anatomical Votives (and Swaddled Babies): from Republican Italy to Roman Gaul

Olivier de Cazanove

Chapter 4: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Use of Real, False and Artificial Hair as Votive Offerings

Jane Draycott

Chapter 5: Demeter as an Ophthalmologist? Eye Votives and the Cult of Demeter and Kore

Georgia Petridou

Chapter 6: Wombs for the Gods

Rebecca Flemming

Chapter 7: Ritual and Meaning: Contextualising Votive Terracotta Infants in Hellenistic Italy

Fay Glinister

Chapter 8: The foot as gnṓrisma

Sara Chiarini

Chapter 9: The Open Man: Anatomical Votive Busts Between the History of Medicine and Archaeology

Laurent Haumesser

Chapter 10: Fragmentation and the Body’s Boundaries: Reassessing the Body in Parts

Ellen Adams

Chapter 11: Votive Genitalia in the Wellcome Collection: Modern Receptions of Ancient Sexual Anatomy

Jen Grove

Chapter 12: Votive Futures: an Afterword

Jessica Hughes

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