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This book looks at the religious beliefs of the people of the roman
province of Britain and at the gods they worshipped. Little
literary evidence survies and it is therefore necessary to rely
almost wholly on epitraphic and icongraphical representations. The
book firstr examines the pre-Roman Celtic background to
Romano-British religion from about 500BC. The chapters following
analyse the nature of the evidence; the introduction of Roman
religion to the province; oriental cults including Christianity;
the integration of Roman with pre-existing British and other Celtic
cults, and the resulting composite religion which thus emerged. The
final chapter examines stylised Celtic representations of anonymous
divinities.
The site at Fontes Sequanae, near Dijon in Burgundy, is notable for
its rich imagery in wood and stone, and itssmall votive offerings
in bronze. This book is a study of stone pilgrim imagery from the
Gallo-Roman shrine to Sequanae, set in the wider context of a large
number of curative cult-sites in Roman Gaul. The author looks at
the religious and social significance of this type of iconography
and of the sanctuaries in general.
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