The Gallic ensign boars had a standard function similar to that of the eagles of the Roman army. Important military artifacts in the organization of the Gallic armies, they were also objects of veneration within the framework of the warrior cult. The more or less stylized representations of wild boars dominated the iconography of the Gallic ensigns in which other animals (bulls, horses, etc.) could also appear. Each subdivision of the Gallic armies - Civitates, Pagi, and Centuries - had its ensign behind which it fought and which served as its rallying point. During the Battle of Alesia, seventy-four Gallic ensigns were thus captured by Caesar according to whom the Gallic peoples also used to take oaths on these military ensigns gathered in bundles.