21; Johns 1996: 96–97, fig. five. 9). however the strap-and-disc units worn via the younger pilgrims at Fontes Sequanae are rather diverse: they seem to symbolize leather-based bodyharness instead of priceless gold chains and medallions; the latter appear to have been infrequent and simply worn via the higher echelons of girl society, while the Burgundian pilgrims are usual humans, occasionally even slaves ( Raybould 1999: 27), and doubtless symbolize boys. To my brain the units worn on the sanctuary are indicative of commitment to the goddess (or keep watch over by way of her) and have been bestowed on these whose family had gone through a few form of giving procedure regarding a symbolic handing-over of ailing teenagers to the care and tutelage of the deity or her clergymen. might be such ‘badges of visitation’ will be visible as analogous to the scallop-shell logo borne by means of pilgrims to the well-known shrine to Saint James of Compostela at Galicia in north-west Spain, or the logo worn at the cap of Chaucer’s Pardoner (‘A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe’: Prologue to the Canterbury stories, line 685; Cunningham 1989: 142–143). different info of the younger pilgrim-image at Fontes Sequanae make a huge contribution to its which means. it truly is assumed (though, might be, this can be challenged) that the statue depicts a customer to the sanctuary, fifty one IMAGE AND id a devotee who travelled – probably from far – to the holy position. The animal within the child’s hands could symbolize a sacrificial sufferer, a present to the goddess, or it can be that the animal itself was once ailing and hence both delivered to the temple for its personal blessing and treatment or was once current by means of proxy within the type of its snapshot. numerous figures of youngsters are portrayed with animals: canine, a cat, a rabbit, even a lamb (Aldhouse-Green 1999: figs. 5–9, pls. 3a–b, 4a, 5); all are held with tenderness, all seem to depict reside pets, and it's attention-grabbing that the majority of the creatures are younger, as though to augment the early life in their proprietors (a statue of a tender pilgrim from the analogous website at Tremblois,in an identical quarter, incorporates a piglet in his palms (Roche-Bernard & Ferdière 1993: 29)). The dog carried by way of ‘our’ pilgrim has its nostril pressed opposed to the disc of his body-harness, and it can be that this indicates the efficiency of the machine and its strength (or that of the puppy) to heal. The perceived symbolic strength of animals, specially canines, within the Classical global, to medication disease is easily documented: the good therapeutic shrine of Asklepios at Epidaurus saved stay canine whose saliva was once believed to assist treatment wounds and different illnesses, and a number of other healing spring-sanctuaries in Gaul and Britain are linked to dog-imagery, significantly Hochscheid within the Mosel Valley close to Trier and Lydney in western Britain ( Jackson 1988: 142–143; Rouse 1902; van Straten 1981: 61–151; Jenkins 1957a: 60–76; Dehn 1941: 104–111; Wightman 1985: 184; Wheeler & Wheeler 1932). eventually, we have to see clone of the younger pilgrim at Fontes Sequanae in its actual context: it stood approximately 60 cm excessive and its basal plinth used to be basically meant to aid the determine status upright within the sanctuary.