%0 Journal Article
%T La sculpture celtique anthropomorphe ¨¤ Chateaumeillant (Cher) : d¨¦couverte r¨¦cente d¡¯une main en gr¨¨s The anthropomorphic Celtic sculpture at Chateaumeillant (Cher): the recent discovery of a sandstone hand
%A Sophie Krausz
%J Revue Arch¨¦ologique du Centre de la France
%D 2010
%I F¨¦d¨¦ration pour l¡¯¨¦dition de la Revue arch¨¦ologique du Centre de la France
%X Au cours des fouilles de l¡¯¨¦t¨¦ 2007, trois fragments appartenant ¨¤ une statue anthropomorphe en gr¨¨s ont ¨¦t¨¦ mis au jour sur l¡¯oppidum de Chateaumeillant. L¡¯¨¦l¨¦ment le plus remarquable est une main ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦chelle un demi. Le d¨¦p t de ces fragments est probablement d¨¦tritique au milieu d¡¯un ensemble homog¨¨ne de c¨¦ramiques attribuables au d¨¦but de La T¨¨ne D1a. La main sculpt¨¦e en ronde-bosse exclut l¡¯appartenance ¨¤ un buste, mod¨¨le de sculpture qui est le plus caract¨¦ristique en Berry. Il s¡¯agit probablement d¡¯une statue assise comme on en conna t plusieurs exemplaires dans le centre de la France ; ces statues sont nettement de tradition gauloise m¨ºme si elles sont presque toujours d¨¦couvertes en contexte gallo-romain. La fragmentation des ¨¦l¨¦ments sculpt¨¦s retrouv¨¦s dans une fosse au comblement d¨¦tritique conduit ¨¤ s¡¯interroger sur les ¨¦v¨¦nements qui ont pr¨¦c¨¦d¨¦ leur d¨¦p t. ¨¦tant donn¨¦ le contexte d¡¯enfouissement, il s¡¯agit plut t d¡¯une cassure accidentelle, mais cet article tente de faire le point sur le sectionnement des mains qui, comme celui des t¨ºtes, renvoie ¨¤ la sph¨¨re guerri¨¨re chez les Celtes. During the 2007 excavation, three fragments of an anthropomorphic sandstone statue were found at the oppidum at Chateaumeillant. The most noteworthy element is a half-scale hand. This material seems to have been discarded as rubbish in a pit otherwise containing a homogeneous assemblage of sherds attributable to the beginning of La T¨¨ne D1a. The hand is sculpted in the round and therefore cannot have come from an example of the usual series of sculptures found in Berry, in which the lower arms are placed in front of the chest. It is probably from a figure sitting cross-legged, of which several examples are known in central France. Although usually recovered from Gallo-Roman contexts, such statues are clearly in a Gallic tradition. The recovery of these fragments mixed with rubbish in a pit, leads us to speculate on the events which preceded their deposition. Given the context in which the fragments were found, their breakage may seem simply have been accidental, but this article reviews evidence for the severing of hands which, like that of heads, is a component of the Celtic warrior tradition.
%K oppidum
%K sculpture
%K anthropomorphic
%K hand
%K celtic
%K Second Iron age
%U http://racf.revues.org/1304