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Taurobolium altar, used for sacrificing bulls, dedicated to Cybele, Mother of the Gods, and to the imperial Numina, by Lucius Pomponius Paternus, with relief of bull's head, sacrificial knife, ladle and vase, Gallo-Roman sculpture, 180-250 AD, excavated in the ramparts of Vesunna, detail, in the Musee Vesunna, Perigueux, Dordogne, France. The Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum was built by Jean Nouvel and opened in 2003, to protect and house the excavated remains of the Vesunna domus and exhibit artefacts from the region. Vesunna was founded on the site of modern-day Perigueux in c. 16 BC under Emperor Augustus, and was the Gallo-Roman capital of Petrucores territory. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Unique Identifier
AR6178743
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4078px × 5906px
Photo Credit
Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY
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2ND CENTURY AD
3RD CENTURY AD
Altar
ANCIENT
ANIMAL
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
Archaeology
ARCHEOLOGICAL
archeology
bas-relief
BULL
classical
Collection
cult
CYBELE
Dagger
detail
dordogne
EUROPE
EUROPEAN
French
Gallo-Roman
Gaul
HERITAGE
History
INDOORS
INSIDE
interior
Knife
Ladle
Limestone
MUSEUM
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
ramparts
Relief
religion
Roman
Sacrifice
SACRIFICIAL KNIFE
Sculpture
Spoon
Stone
TAUROBOLIA
TAUROBOLIUM
Vase
VERTICAL
Western Europe
Western European