History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 days agoBronze Neptune from Lyon arrives in Rome
A large 3rd-century hollow bronze Neptune from Roman Gaul, the largest found in France, is on loan from Lyon to Rome for a special exhibition.
Senon was an important city of the Mediomatrici tribe, documented in Roman sources after the conquest of Gaul (57 B.C.). While pre-Roman Gallic remains had been found before, the excavations were too small in scale to draw any conclusions about the extent and nature of the settlement. The excavation revealed the remains of timber-framed constructions that proved it was a fully developed settlement from the middle of the 2nd century B.C. to the beginning of the Roman period.