It is not known what their function was, but Dunand thinks they are "labels" attached to, for example, votive objects.

There are also votive objects used for the all-important búcsúk (church patronal festivals).

A votive object bearing his name originates from Meroe.

The statue was inscribed as a votive object to Hadad, whose name the donor bore.

In a box beside the carving is a label reporting that such heads were sold as votive objects to pilgrims on their way to shrines.

Many votive objects were brought to the shrine, some of oak, and some of stone.

A large collection of erotic votive objects and frescoes were found at Pompeii.

His aim was to revitalise Breton sacred art: crosses, votive objects and traditional crafts.

Others continued an earlier tradition of molded terracotta figures used as cult images or votive objects.

Because of the gap in time between the Bronze Age collapse and the earliest votive objects, continuity appears to be broken.