Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-calledanatomical votives. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the present. This volume scrutinises this distinctive dedicatory phenomenon, bringing together for the first time a range of methodologically diverse approaches which challenge traditional assumptions and simple categorisations. The chapters presented here ask new questions about what constitutes an anatomical votive, how they were used and manipulated in cultural, cultic and curative contexts and the complex role of anatomical votives in negotiations between humans and gods, the body and its disparate parts, divine and medical healing, ancient assemblages and modern collections and collectors. In seeking to re-contextualise and re-conceptualise anatomical votives this volume uniquely juxtaposes the medical with the religious, the social with the conceptual, the idea of the body in fragments with the body whole and the museum with the sanctuary, crossing the boundaries between studies of ancient religion, medicine, the body and the reception of antiquity.

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.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Abbreviations 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 gn?risma 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 I, Bibliography Index /I,