Statuette of the god Mercury with a rooster. Mercury was protecting the travelers but also traders, function referred to by the purse he holds in the left hand. Mercury had other roles: he escorted dead souls into the kingdom of dead and conveyed to the people the messages of gods. This is why, in the other hand, he held the caduceus (caduceus), baton surmounted by wings. The rooster symbolizes his birth at dawn. Silver. 150-220 AD. Mâcon, Matisco in Roman times. Now in the British Museum, inv. 1824.0460.12. Picture taken at the Oog in oog met de Romeinen (Eye to Eye with the Romans) Exhibition in the Gallo-Romeins Museum of Tongres.
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