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Terracotta statuette fragment of a deer sacrificed at an altar to Artemis

Unrecorded maker

2nd century BCE · Terracotta

Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Sixth Angel Delivers the Four Angels that had been Bound at the River Euphrates; an Altar Appears in the Heavens as the Enthroned Christ Raises His Hand in Blessing

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1180 · Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment

Altar to the Sun Warrior

Mexico Nahua artist(s)

1450-1521 CE · Stone

Design for an Altar Surmounted by a Crucifix in Four Different Views

Vincenzo de' Rossi (d. 1587)

1546–47 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash over traces of black chalk, ruling and compass work

Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

late 18th century · Bronze

The Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

18th–19th century · Brass

Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

19th century · Wood, sacrificial materials

Base from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

19th century · Brass

Ọ́bà with Sacrificial Animals from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

19th century · Brass

Wilton album, folio 16b: Mucius Scaevola; the Roman youth, left, placing his hand on a fire burning on an altar; a woman on the right extending her hand toward the altar

Anonymous

1550–1650 · Etching

Queen Victoria Taking the Oath to Maintain the Protestant Faith

William Henry Egleton (d. 1866)

May 2, 1853 · Mixed method engraving

Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

19th–mid-20th century · Wood