🏛️ Inscription gallo-romaine à Seyssel
Eroded Gallo-Roman dedication stone in eastern France
📋 Fast Facts
- Gallo-Roman inscription dating to approximately 1st–5th centuries CE
- Classified as a French historical monument (monument historique)
- Embedded at the base of a cross on a public road in Seyssel
- Text largely eroded; believed to reference the local deity Vintius Pollux
The Inscription gallo-romaine à Seyssel is an eroded stone inscription embedded at the base of a cross on a public road in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. Dating to the Gallo-Roman period, when the Roman Empire controlled Gaul, the stone offers archaeological evidence of religious syncretism and local worship practices in the centuries following the Roman conquest. Though much of the inscription's text has deteriorated beyond easy reading, scholars believe it was a dedication ...