But not all ex-votos had the outsized dimensions of the kouroi and korai. There are small sculptural relics documenting popular worship, with a diversity of motifs, often imitating sacrificial objects such as cakes, loaves of bread, and animals such as roosters, oxen, and pigeons. Very common ex-voto was the form of the wooden plate painted with some pious or mythological scene, called pinax, but they have all disappeared due to the fragility of the material, except for a handful found in Corinth, but their versions in terracotta, ivory and stone engraved in relief still exist in significant numbers, and their great majority is dedicated to Asclepius. Such images are an important source of knowledge of archaic religious practices.STRATEN, pp. 53-63
