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Wooden sculpture from Gallo-Roman Auvergne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Claude Vatin
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It would be an exaggeration to say that until recently the sculpture of Celtic and Roman Gaul has remained unknown. Espérandieu’s catalogue (Espérandieu, 1907) and the collections at St-Germain (Benoit, 1969) provided numerous illustrations, often of exceptional quality. Nevertheless, the recent finds of votive deposits at the Source of the Seine in Burgundy and Chamalihres in Auvergne (Martin, 1963; 1964; Deyts, 1966; Vatin, 1969a; 1969b) have extended our knowledge to an unexpected degree, and in a field with which we were previously almost entirely unfamiliar, that of sculpture in wood (EspCrandieu, no. 2970 ff. (Montbouy), 3412 (Essarois), 5347 (Luxeuil); Mansuelli, 1967, fig. 115; Louis, 1950; 1954). The Chamalihres deposit alone yielded more than five thousand wooden ex-votos: the figure speaks for itself.

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Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 181 , March 1972 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1972

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Footnotes

In our December number for 1965 it was a great pleasure to introduce to English readers some of the astonishing wooden figures found by Professor Roland Martin at the Source of the Seine. This is now matched by our delight in being able to follow this, six and a half years later, by a brief, illustrated account of Professor Claude Vatin's remarkable discoveries of wooden sculpture at Chamalières, Clermont-Ferrand, in Auvergne. Professor Vatin, until recently head of the Circonscription d'Auvergne et Limousin, now holds a chair at the University of Aix-Marseille.

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