A wounded Celtic warrior, naked but for a twisted torc at his neck, sits slumped on his fallen shield as blood runs from a wound in his side. This Roman marble copies a lost Hellenistic original, probably a bronze made around 230–220 BCE for Attalus I of Pergamon after his victory over the Galatians. It gives a defeated enemy unusual dignity.
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His sword and a curved war trumpet lie beneath him, and his hair is stiff and matted: details that marked him as a Gaul, not the gladiator he was long taken for.
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