God Of Amiens
The God of Amiens is a Gallo-Roman bronze statuette found in Amiens, Somme (department), Somme. The statuette, which has been dated to the end of the 1st century CE, is of a male youth sat cross-legged, with the right ear of an animal, perhaps a deer's. This statuette is on display at the Musée de Picardie. The God of Amiens has been linked iconographically with two other Gallo-Roman statues from northeastern France, the God of Besançon and God of Lantilly. These have been thought to represent a common Celtic deities, Gaulish god, whose attributes included a bunch of grapes, a serpent, and an animal ear. This god is perhaps connected with the Celtic stag god Cernunnos. Discovery and later history The statuette was found in October 1845 in the ''faubourg'' of Saint-Fuscien, in the neighbourhood of Amiens, on the property of one Captain Bournel. It was found alongside Roman coins and a bronze spoon. Saint-Fuscien appears to have been a necropolis in ancient times, as evidence of ...
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