Purification Collection

Peleus performing a purification ritual
Peleus, Greek hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and father of Achilles, performing a purification ritual at a fountain

The Presentation in the Temple (front panel), 1447
Stefan Lochner (circa 1410-1451). German painter. International Gothic period. The Presentation in the Temple (front panel), 1447. Tempera and oil (?) on panel. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Egypt, Cairo. Courtyard and ablution fountain in the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Egypt, Cairo. Courtyard and ablution fountain in the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

The Cisternoni of Livorno - a series of three large buildings in the neoclassical style at Livorno, in Tuscany

Iberian Kernos. 3rd century BC
Iberian Kernos, c. 200 BC. Triangular-shaped ceramic composed of three small piriform, with a wide bulb and narrow neck, goblets on a rounded base to which they are fused with three brackets

Historical views of Further India (Southeast Asia)
Historical views of Further India (Thailand and Myanmar)

Ancient Roman housing, barns and towers from Trajan s
Ancient Roman housing, barns and towers from Trajans Column. Granai e torri degli Alloggiamenti

Roman Lararium shrine and Lustrazio purification rite
Roman household gods or Lares in a Lararium shrine, showing two young men, genii of Augustus, in tunics and coturn sandals with drinking horns, found in Herculaneum 1

Priest Eleazar conducting ritual purification
This depicts High Priest Eleazar preparing the water of separation (commonly known as the water of purification) preparing to purify a bull in preparation for slaughter

Purification of the Blessed Virgin - Luke 2. circa 1688

Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Toth and Horus give sacred
Egyptian Art. Temple of Kom Ombo. Ptolemaic Dynasty. 2nd century B.C. Dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and falcon god Haroeris. Purification

Choirbook number 1. Gregorian chant. 15th. century. The Prese
Choirbook number 1. Gregorian chant. 15th. century. Antiphonary By Master of Burgo de Osma. Parchment. The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Miniature. Letter S. Spain

Turkey. Istanbul. Source of ablutions. 18th century Enclosure of the Basilica of Santa Sofia

Turkey. Istanbul. Fountain of Sultan Amhed III, 1728. Detail

Mesopotamian art. Neo-Assyrian Period (912-612 BC). Waterbasin from the Temple of Ashur. 704-681 B.C. Basalt. Decorated with reliefs depicting the rituals of water. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Egyptian Art. Cornice Block with relief showing the Baptism of Pharaoh Roman Period. 41- 68 A.D. Sandstone. 1st Cataract, Philae, Temple of Harendotes. Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York

Purification of water, Western Front, France, WW1
The purification of water by British troops on the Western Front in France during World War One. Poisons were removed and the water was sterilised

Preparation of the mummies for the purification ceremony. 16th c. BC. 17th Dynasty. Wall from a Theban tomb. Egyptian art. Middle Kingdom. Painting. ITALY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology

Humorous postcard - Workhouse Tramp gets the Order of the B
A humorous postcard showing a tramp in a workhouse being pushed towards a bath by a uniformed attendant

Gennvilliers Sewageworks
View of irrigated market gardens at the Plaine de Gennevilliers near Paris

Kaffirs Purify Child
Kaffir ceremony of purification of a new-born child; in the distance, a child with birth-defects has been left for a wild beast to devour

Menstruating Jews - 2
This sunken bath is used by Jewish women in Fuerth, Bavaria, for ritual purification

Mysteries of Eleusis
An initiate into the MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS performs the ceremony of purification

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