tama votive offering -male head- votive, Silver colored Byzantine Greek Eastern Orthodox Promise Icon, Ex Voto

tama votive offering (male head) votive, Silver colored Byzantine Greek Eastern Orthodox Promise Icon, Ex Voto

Tamata are votive offerings we use in the Orthodox Church.
Tamata are usually small metal plaques, which may be of base or precious metal, usually with an embossed image symbolizing the subject of prayer for which the plaque is offered.
For the most part, are pictures of the part of your body that needs healing. They are offered to God or Saints, as a petition for help or in gratitude for an answered prayer.
eye ex-voto, petition to God, healing supplication.

- Width: 6 cm( 2.3" )
- Length: 8.5mm ( 3.344" )
- Color: Gold
- Thin metal