#votive stele

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Votive stele of Cernunnos - Apollo - Mercury - Private Park near Reims - France

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Stelae of Cernunnos - Apollo - Mercury - museum Reims - Champagne - Reims

Limestone stelae, sculpted in bas-relief. In the center, Cernunnos seated cross-legged between Apollo and Mercury standing. The bearded god adorned with a torque, dressed in a clinging tunic with short sleeves and shoes, is seated on a throne. He is wearing deer horns. With his right hand, he extracts from a bag placed on his legs and his left arm, seeds or coins which fall between a deer and a bull placed face to face at the foot of the throne. On the left, Apollo, his right foot on a step, his hair long and curly, his back covered with a drapery which comes back in front and falls to the ground, leans with his left hand on a lyre placed on the backrest of the throne. On the right, Mercury, wearing a petasus, a cloak over his shoulders, holds a caduceus in his raised right hand, which his head partly hides and carries, in the other hand, on his left arm, a purse. Apollo and Mercury look towards Cernunnos. A triangular pediment surmounts the three deities: it is decorated with a rat in its center and is supported by two pilasters.