Libation

Scene of a ritual sacrifice with libation on Ancient Greek pottery, dating to 430-420 BC.

A libation is a ritual sacrifice of a liquid. Usually, this was done by pouring the liquid over a sacred object.

Libation Media

Relief of libation to a vegetation goddess (ca. 2500 BCE) found in ancient Girsu, at the Louvre.
Roman bronze statuette of a priest, his head ritually covered, extending a patera in a gesture of libation, 2nd-3rd century CE.
Buryat shaman performing a libation.
Apollo pouring a libation from a phiale onto the omphalos, with his sister Artemis attending; a bucranium hangs above
The emperor Trajan pouring a libation in a military setting (relief from Trajan's Column)
Pouring of a libation at a ceremony in Bouaké, Ivory Coast
Burmese Buddhist water libation ceremony in 1900
Pouring one out

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