Gli ostensori nell’archeologia rupestre: alcuni esempi e proposte di confronto

The study examines some sites with rock art, exclusively analysing historical engravings that depict a monstrance for the host. We suggest to evaluate the numerical consistency of these subjects even being conscious of the fact that today an exhaustive catalogue would be impossible to propose; consequently, one generally finds publication on historic rock art to be lacking. We evaluate the typology of the examples of monstrance and propose some hypotheses explaining why these subjects were used. These subjects are mostly concentrated within the chronological period between the 17th and 19th centuries.