Olympia Museum - Bronze Foot
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Olympia Museum - Bronze Foot
Votive sculpture of a bronze Foot. Several sculptures of body parts is exhibited in the museum. They were offered by devotees to the gods in hopes of a cure for the afflicted body part.
The practice is still alive in Greece where icons of Christ, Panagia, or Saints is covered by little plaques representing body parts that have been offered in exchange for a cure.
Exhibited in Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece.