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ICONOGRAPHY | Mallet God | Dieu au Maillet | Hammer-/Schlegelgott | ハンマーの神 | Dio del Martello
The god's main attribute seems to be the mallet (someties a hammer). On some altars, notably in southern Gaul, we find only the hammer. If we have an anthropomorphic representation, then Sucellos usually carries the mallet with his left hand; in his right, he usually holds an olla, a drinking vessel; also to his right, there is a canid, usually looking up to the god. Is the dog usually part of Sucellos' myth and iconography - or does this come from adopting the iconography of the Roman Silvanus?
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Often underappreciated and marginalised, SUCELLOS seems to have been an omnipotent god
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