Hercule, le lion et le cheval : les bronzes romains du puits 269 de Châteaumeillant/Mediolanum (Cher)
The excavation of the Gallic oppidum of Châteaumeillant-Mediolanum in 2012, yielded a remarkable deposit in the bottom of a Gallo-Roman well. It included nearly 6 000 diverse fragments, including ceramics, animal bones, defixionum tabellae and the remains of a four-wheel cart. Amongst these, four ex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CNRS Éditions
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Gallia |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/gallia/907 |
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| Summary: | The excavation of the Gallic oppidum of Châteaumeillant-Mediolanum in 2012, yielded a remarkable deposit in the bottom of a Gallo-Roman well. It included nearly 6 000 diverse fragments, including ceramics, animal bones, defixionum tabellae and the remains of a four-wheel cart. Amongst these, four exceptional bronze objects were discovered an oinochoe (wine jug) with a trefoil spout, the front part of a chest, a horse’s head featuring a long pouring spout and a solid bronze lion with silver-incrusted eyes. Although their archaeological studies aren’t completed yet, this paper presents a preliminary examination of these four bronze objects and our first hypotheses about them. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-4119 2109-9588 |