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Warrior's head of Rubiás

Bande, Baixa Limia, Ourense

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Warrior's head of Rubiás

Curiosity · Bande, Baixa Limia, Ourense

The warrior's head of Rubiás is a granite sculpture of a male head, dated to the 1st century and considered one of the most representative examples of Gallaecian-Roman sculpture at the height of the hillfort culture. It appeared in 1935 in the castro of Rubiás, next to the río Cadós, crowning a village fountain and completely out of context. It has traditionally been considered part of a statue already mentioned in 1609 by the celanovan Mauro Castellá Ferrer. Very carefully executed, it measures 30 by 30 by 20 centimetres, with almond-shaped eyes without pupils, a prominent nose and a mouth with a melancholic set; the neck bears a torque, whose front part is not preserved. It is kept in the Museo Arqueolóxico Provincial de Ourense.

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