Las Estatuas Galaico Lusitanas en posición de parada. II Contextualización Cronoestilística y función

Abstract

The second part of our study starts with a review of the current state of knowledge about pre-Roman sculpture out of the Greco-Italic area, confirming the lack of any relationship between Castro sculpture in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula and the local sculpture tradition during the Bronze Age or the Iberian and Barbarian European sculpture. Next, we deal a formal analysis of the standing warriors, paying attention to both the arms depicted (there are similar examples at the end of the first century BC) and the inherited techno-stylistic solutions from Greco-Italic tradition. Finally, we propose a functional interpretation for these warrior statues as a Roman artistic creation in order to promote the recruitment of auxiliary troops during Cantabrian Wars.