Inscribed menhir

A inscribed menhir is a anthropomorphic Mégalithe carved in Ronde-bosse in a stone driven out of ground with the manner of the Menhir S.

The term of inscribed menhir always makes the subject of debate, some preferring the terms of flagstone or anthropomorphic stele. Nevertheless, this name was essential by convenience to describe this phenomenon.

The inscribed menhirs, first examples of scupture in sculpture in the round in Europe, are found by groups in extremely localized areas, generally in the north of the Mediterranean:

France, rouergat group: the Rouergue (with the hinge of the departments of the Aveyron, the Tarn and the Herault) offers a whole of about fifty sandstone inscribed menhirs stylistiquement very homogeneous dated from the OJ the inscribed menhirs of this group are sexuées, the attributes of the characters varying according to the sex. It is noticed that certain statues were feminized, and others more rarely masculinized.
France, Corsica.
Italy, Sardinia.
Italy, Ligurie.

The Musée Fenaille of Rodez presents the most important collection of inscribed menhirs joined together to date.

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Menhirs and Statues-Menhirs in the department of the Tarn.
Inscribed menhirs of Rouergue in the departments of Aveyron and the Tarn
Inscribed menhirs in the department of Gard.

an interesting exposure in Belgium

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