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Roman relief, Lugdunum Museum, Lyon, France

Chariot racing with bigae (2 horse chariots), detail, Roman relief from a funerary monument possibly of a charioteer, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The full relief on this monument depicts chariots and the metae or turning points in the Roman circus. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Chariot racing with bigae (2 horse chariots), detail, Roman relief from a funerary monument possibly of a charioteer, in Lugdunum Museum, an archaeology museum housing Celtic, Roman and pre-Roman artefacts, designed by Bernard Zehrfuss and opened 1975, on the Roman site of Lugdunum in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France. The full relief on this monument depicts chariots and the metae or turning points in the Roman circus. The Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus on an existing Gallic site, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen