Images of Gaulish culture #2

These images were provided by the "Musee Archeologique" in Dyon.

Funeral monument, representing a horse trader, Dijon.

Goddess of a "redemption believe"; one promises to raise a statue when the goddess helps him (/her?). Near Gissey-sur-Ouche in the bed of a river.

Gaulish pottery from a Celtic sanctuary at Mirebeau-sur-Beze

Maquette of a house at Etaules, build against the fortification, late bronze and early iron age.

Bronze casting, Autun
Top: working with bag-bellows
Middle: the hot crucible with liquid bronze
Bottom: one mould for 16 fibulae

The heart of the workshop of a bronze caster, Autun, 1st to 2nd century AD. The workshop was part of an industrial street with bone workers, iron forgers and ceramists.

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