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3.V： The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain.
4.What little space there was below the sloping ceiling was as closely covered with pictures as an Italian votive chapel.
5.Materials: 4 votive candles, 1 taper candle, a chalice with salt-water, a bowl of sand, a cone of sandalwood incense, matches.
6.A first-century B.C. votive relief found at the Roman port of Ostia shows fishermen lifting a Greek sculpture of Hercules in their nets -- a scene scholars believe depicts an actual event.
7.On the basis of archaeological samples and data collected over many years, as well as historical documents, the author investigates several questions intimately connected with the Southern Song official kilns: the uses and unique features of Southern Song pottery votive objects; the relationships between Wang Jinxi and Shao E, on the one hand, and the Liqi Ju (Bureau of Ritual Objects), Shao Ju and Xiuneisi official kiln, on the other; and the styles and usages of the replica bronze ritual objects produced by the Southern Song kilns as ceramic objects.
