Images de dieux, images d’ancêtres : aperçus sur la religion antique dans la cité des Bituriges cubes

International audienceThis article deals with two types of illustrated representations : characters sitting as a tailor, cross‒legged and busts on base. These statues, with features deemed “indigenous”, have initially aroused the interest of the archaeologists of the Antiquity and were recently the subject of new studies by the specialists in the protohistoric period. Among the cities of Gaul, the civitas of Bituriges Cubi distinguishes itself by the fact that it gathers many of these figurations. It is a question of wondering about the nature of the cults related to these representations and more widely on the evolution of religious iconography in Gaul in a historical context of integration into the Roman orbit