Buste-socle

The statues are busts of male figures which sit on an unworked square base (or socle).

[1]: 59  It is from the examples found at Paule that archaeologist Yves Menez (in a 1999 article) defined this type.

A buste-socle found in Tour Magne [fr], Nîmes was mounted in a box into which coins had been thrown.

[1]: 91  However, one buste-socle from Molesme, Côte-d'Or appears to have been part of a late La Tène sanctuary complex and then deliberately buried during the reign of Tiberius.

[2]: 357  Armelle Duceppe-Lamarre has suggested a Levroux, Indre buste-socle, buried in the 1st century BC with a polisher and a deer antler, was intended to depict a god (with the polisher and deer antler intended as that god's attributes).