statue-menhir de Candoubre

The statue-menhir de Candoubre is a statue-menhir belonging to the Rouergat group. It was discovered near the village of Candoubre, at the foot of a promontoir close to the Vèbre, in Murat-sur-Vèbre in the Tarn department of France.

Carved from a slab of locally sourced gneiss, the statue measures 1,27 m in height, 0,77 m in width and 0,17 m in thickness. Its carvings are heavily worn, but a male human figure can still be recognized from the face, eyes, nose, tattoos, arms and hands. The figure wears a belt and a baudrier bearing “l’objet”; the baudrier also remains visible on the rear face.

The statue was discovered in 2004 by Didier Jeay during agricultural work. It was inscribed as a historic monument as an object on 30 octobre 2019. Its dating from 4800 BCE to 2500 BCE is based on a typological estimate.

Statue-menhirs are carved standing stones of the later European Neolithic, with a human figure cut into a vertical slab. They are most common in southern and western France, Catalonia, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the Alps. This statue belongs to the group known as the Rouergat group.

statue-menhir de Candoubre is a statue-menhir in Murat-sur-Vèbre, France. A typological estimate: 4800 BCE to 2500 BCE. Material: gneiss. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the French article "Statue-menhir de Candoubre", shown in the original language.