Stele 1

Grey marble statue-⁠stele, the only one in the necropolis besides stele 27 to bear two engraving phases. The first shows a man with a rectangular nose, a bead necklace, a bow and three arrows slung across the chest and a chequered torso; the second replaces the head with a radiating motif (sun) and adds two crossed baldrics and geometric networks. Reused as the north slab of the dolmen M I chamber, set upright, engraving facing inwards.Image and text after the publication “Stèles préhistoriques –⁠ La nécropole néolithique du Petit-⁠Chasseur à Sion –⁠ Musées cantonaux du Valais”.Petit-⁠Chasseur 2021 report (PDF, in French).