Lyre ou sistre ? : Petit malentendu à propos d'un objet en bronze de Berthouville (Gaule Belgique)

Christophe Vendries (1, 2)

1 CReAAH - Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire
2 UR2 - Université de Rennes 2

The excavations of the sanctuary at Berthouville (department of Eure), led by Le Metayer-Masselin, uncovered a small bronze object which was handed over to the Musée des Antiquités Nationales in 1862. Since then, the item has been exhibited on numerous occasions as a sistrum, although it is, in fact, a lyre set on top of a column. This Apollonian motif is well known in sculpture. Similar objects in bronze, from Vidy-Lausanne (Upper Germania), Corfinium (Italy) and Carnuntum (Pannonia), show that this type of votive offering is not unusual in Gaul and the type of instrument can be described either as a lyre or a cithara.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Christophe Vendries. Lyre ou sistre ? : Petit malentendu à propos d'un objet en bronze de Berthouville (Gaule Belgique). Antike Kunst, 2016, 59, pp.44-52. ⟨hal-02353894⟩