Les époques gallo-romaine et mérovingienne au Musée d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg. Gallo-Römische und Fränkische Abteilung. Gallo-Roman and Frankish Antiquities. Guide illustré

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Title:: Les époques gallo-romaine et mérovingienne au Musée d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg. Gallo-Römische und Fränkische Abteilung. Gallo-Roman and Frankish Antiquities. Guide illustré

Author:: Thill, Gérard

Publication year:: 1978

Publisher:: Marché-aux-Poissons

Place of publication:: Luxembourg

Measurements:: 35 p.

Description:: Archéologie

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Front cover: Relief showing Vitis, the personification of the vine; it belonged to the frieze of a Roman funerary monument erected near the Mosel river. This stone block was hollowed out and re-used as a sarcophagus of a Frankish chieftain in Emerange. Gallo-Roman Period 1 View of a room dedicated to the «Highway Department» 2 Epona, goddess of horses, horsemen and grooms (Medingen) 3 Epona, the horse-goddess (Contern) 4 Iron sandal (to protect a horse’s lame foot), bronze horsebells and harness-accessory (from various places) Vulcan, the god of metalworking (Lenningen) The blacksmith’s tools (from varıous places) Compasses, set-square, plummet and stylus for writing (from various places) 3 Carpenter's tools (from various places) 9 Agricultural and viticultural implements (from various places) 10 Base with four stone-carved deities; it carried a column crowned by a riding Jupiter and a giant with serpent tail instead of legs, a «Jupiter-giant-column» (Leudelange) 11 Votive inscription on a bronze tablet, dedicated to the local deities Lenus Mars, Veraudunus and Inciona - (Widdenberg) 12 Panther killing a swan, chariot-adornment of bronze (Widdenberg) 13 Dancing nymph (Septfontaines) 14 Capitoline she-wolf, suckling the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome; from a grave-stone (Arlon) 14a The God Apollo (Mamer) 15 Reconstruction of a «Jupiter-giant-column»: base with four deities (Amberloup) and the riding Jupiter (Dalheim) 16-17 Model house and temple in stone, used as household shrines (Titelberg) 18 Aedicula showing in a niche a sitting Mother-goddess, symbol of fertility 19 Lamps, filler for pouring oil and candlestick of clay (from various places) 20 Oil lamp of bronze with a piece of chain and a hook for suspension; this hook also served as an instrument for trimming the wick (Ellange) 21 Head of Rosmerta, the female partner of Mercury, the god of commerce and manual skill (Dalheim) 22 A man’s head, representing probably the Emperor Septi- mius Severus, carved in Italian marble («Tossenberg» between Strassen and Mamer) 23 A man's head (Titelberg) 24 A lion's head, from a funerary monument (?) (Schuttrange) 25 Mirror of tin-plated bronze and ivory comb (Steinfort) 26 Silver ring with inserted intaglio (i.e. a carved gem) (Altrier) 27 Funerary relief, showing a lady at her toilet: one maid is dressing her hair, the other is holding a mirror (former collection P.E. de Mansfeld) 28-35 Eight brooches of hronze, used instead of buttons; all of them are zoomorphic (i.e. having animal form), most of them are enamelled, nr. 32 and 33 are silver-plated as well (Titelberg and Dalheim) 36 Steelyard of bronze for measuring weight; at the bottom two weights in the form of an acorn and a foot (Dalheim) 37 A cooper’s workshop: at the top several tools; at the bottom wine-barrels are being made by local cask makers (Berbourg) 38 Funerary relief with native tenants paying rent at a counter (Arlon) 39 Part of the frieze from a rich wine-grower’s funerary monument in the Mosel valley. It shows the vine-goddess Vitis, from whose legs spring vines, two cupids aad herons gathering grapes (cf. front cover) Grape-harvester in his vineyard, bending over a tub; the vines are supported by stakes (this block probably belonged to the same monument as that of Vitis (nr. 39), near Remerschen Roman glass vessels from four centuries (Hellange, Junglinster, Steinfort) 42 Footed glass-jug with handle and zigzag collar (Steinfort) 43 Footed Beaker: transparent, light green glass with applied thread ornament (Junglinster) t4 Terracotta figurines: votive and funerary offerings, presents, toys, etc. (Martelange, Altrier. Dalheim, Nieder- wampach, etc.) 45 Terracotta figurine representing a Mother-goddess (Altrier) 46 Terracotta figurine of a Mother-goddess, stamped at the back 1 IDELIS1ECIT (Titelberg) 47 Monsters of the deep, from a funerary monument (Mersch)

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