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Sources de la Seine: Ex voto plaque with eyes and inscription
Sources de la Seine: Ex voto eye offering (Dijon Mus. Arch; Athena Review Image Archive)
This small bronze plaque (5 cm long) with repousee work was found in Sources-de-la-Seine at the sanctuary for Sequana, goddess of the Rover Seine. The plaque, dating from the 1st-3rd century AD, has a mask-like design of two eyes, and the inscibed name MATTA.
Matta was a Gallo-Roman woman who gave the plaque as an ex-voto offering to Sequana, in order to cure an eye ailment.
The plaque is in the Dijon Museum of Archaeology.
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