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EX-VOTO · ALTOS DEL SOTILLO

The Armed Offerer

Helmet, arms open, vulnerability

This reconstruction shows an armed figure making an offering; it is not an exact copy of the reference votive figure.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

Image of The Armed Offerer
DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

This recreation imagines an armed offerer with arms open. It does not exactly reproduce parallel 0224, which lacks a helmet and keeps arms alongside the body.

Ex-votos are not photographic portraits. They select recognisable attributes —tunic, belt, helmet, posture— and compress them into a few centimetres. Their repetition allows studying social categories, but each deposit may have responded to a unique personal story.

Evidence and interpretation

Documented fact: parallel 0224 exists. Interpretation and caution: its clothing and provenance do not certify this armed recreation nor a precise find at Altos del Sotillo.

Catalogue facts

Narrative date
Parallel 0224: 3rd–2nd centuries BCE; typological recreation
Location
Jaén sanctuaries; individual provenance uncertain
Material
Cast bronze
Context
Votive offering · male figure with helmet
Classification
Iberian collection or explicit interpretive resource
Visual reference
Hypothetical reconstruction; CER.ES · Juan Cabré Museum 0224 is a distinct parallel, without helmet

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

A reconstructed gesture does not replace the original's record

The ex-voto 0224 of the Juan Cabré Museum, used as a comparative reference, measures only 54.3 millimetres. Its catalogue describes a triangular head, arms pressed to the body and open palms; it does not document a helmet. Furthermore, it alternatively proposes Collado de los Jardines or La Lobera as possible provenance, not a precise excavation at Altos del Sotillo. This distinction matters: the recreated figure and its clothing are a visual proposal. The small original allows studying how a few incisions and file work sufficed to individualise eyes, mouth and extremities.

Reference images and provenance

No verifiable entrance photograph is preserved for this representation. You may consult its documentation, but we would not present its face as an exact reconstruction.

Additional visual documentation

A cited publication does not establish which image was used to create the character.

Where it is held

Juan Cabré Museum (Calaceite)

Reference material evidence · Documented collection

Parallel 0224, without helmet and with arms alongside the body. Individual provenance uncertain; does not identify the armed recreation.

The holding institution is documented; public display may change. Check its official record before visiting.

Sources and references

Expand this information and consult its provenance

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