The Gundestrup cauldron. Silver vessel. 200 BC and 300 AD. Horned male figure seated generally identified as the god Cernunnos.
The Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La Tène period or early Roman Iron Age. Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark. Horned male figure seated in a central position. He holds a torc in his right hand and the ram-horned serpent in his left. Attended by a stag on his right and a boar on his left. Is generally identified as the god Cernunnos. National Museum of Denmark.
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