Statue-menhir de Couffignet

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The statue-menhir of Couffignet is a statue-menhir belonging to the rouergat group discovered in La Salvetat-sur-Agout, in the Hérault department in France.

Description: The statue was discovered in 2004 by Daniel Escande during a plough near the hamlet of Couffignet near the Pass d'Empy. It was engraved on a large granite slab of local origin 2,21 m high by 1 m wide and 0.25 m thick. The statue was discovered in good condition. Only the front face is engraved. It's a male statue. The face is rectangular, the eyes are represented but not the nose. Other anthropomorphic characters are arms, hands, legs and feet. The hands and feet have only four fingers each. The character wears a belt with buckle, a shoulder strap with "the object". The statue is singularized by the presence of two curved lines, vertical, starting from each side of the face and ending at the level of the belt, such as a scarf. The statue is preserved in the museum of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières.