Warrior of Hirschlanden

The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a sandstone statue of a warrior, the oldest known Iron Age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the Alps. A work of the Hallstatt culture, probably of the 6th century BCE, it was found in 1963 beside a low barrow with 16 burials at Hirschlanden, now part of Ditzingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and is supposed to have stood on its top. Its preserved height is 1.50 m, the feet having been broken off. The figure wears a torc, a belt with a late Hallstatt dagger and a pointed hat, and its sketchy face has led to speculation that it wears a mask. It is now in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart, with a copy at the site.