Editing Arduinna (section)

==Depictions==
In ''The Gods of the Celts'', [[Miranda Aldhouse-Green|Miranda Green]] states that some depictions of Arduinna show her riding a [[boar]].<ref>Green, ''Gods of the Celts'', 1986, p.&nbsp;180; the connection is also made in popularized guidebooks such as B.G. Walker (1991), ''Woman's Dictionary of Symbol and Sacred Objects'' (San Francisco: Harper) and J.C. Cooper (1992) ''Symbolic and Mythological Animals'' (London).</ref>  However, Simone Deyts<ref>Deyts, Simone (1992) ''Images des Dieux de la Gaule'' (Images of the Gods of Gaul). Paris: Editions Errance. {{ISBN|2-87772-067-5}}</ref> notes that the bronze Gallo-Roman statue of a woman in a short belted tunic, riding a boar [[sidesaddle]] and holding a knife, conserved in the [[National Archaeological Museum (France)|Musée des antiquités nationales]], [[St-Germain-en-Laye]],<ref>The bronze is illustrated in Boucher, S. (1976) ''Recherches sur les Bronzes Figurés de Gaule Pré-romaine et Romaine'' (Research on the Bronze Figures of Gaul, Pre-Roman and Roman). Paris, Ecole Français de Rome, fig. 292, or [http://www.bridgemanart.com/search?filter_text=Arduinna&x=29&y=16 Bridgeman archives: Arduinna] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528025442/http://www.bridgemanart.com/search?filter_text=Arduinna&x=29&y=16 |date=2013-05-28 }})</ref> bears no inscription, and was simply assumed to be Arduinna by the 19th century [[antiquarian]] who discovered it—perhaps because the modern symbol of the Ardennes region is also a boar.<ref>Deyts 1992, pp.&nbsp;46–47.</ref> Another such bronze, from the collection of [[Richard Payne Knight]], has been in the [[British Museum]] since 1824; it is traditionally identified as "Diana".<ref>British Museum, [https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=423686&partid=1&searchText=boar&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=21 illustration and description.]</ref> Both bronze statuettes are now headless.