DUMONTET (Monique) & ROMEUF (Anne-Marie) — Gallo-Roman E - Lot 90

DUMONTET (Monique) & ROMEUF (Anne-Marie) — Gallo-Roman Ex-Votos from the Source des Roches in Chamalières Clermont-Ferrand, Bargoin Museum, City of Clermont-Ferrand, 1980. Paperback, 8vo, 52 pp., followed by XLVI pages of plates; illustrated cover. Catalog of the exhibition held at the Bargoin Museum in 1980, dedicated to the exceptional collection of Gallo-Roman votive offerings discovered at the Source des Roches in Chamalières. Catalog edited by Monique Dumontet and Anne-Marie Romeuf. Numerous illustrations and 46 pages of photographic plates reproducing the wooden votive sculptures: figures, horsemen, horses, body parts, and anatomical fragments. This collection, discovered beginning in 1968, constitutes one of the major examples of wood carving in Roman Gaul; the objects were deposited in a sanctuary associated with a healing spring.

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