The housing
Héricart de Thury:
"Indeed what makes us think it was a town, is the quantity and
the variety of ruins, the arrangement of the buildings, the alignments
which seem to be those of regular streets and squares, built in one go.
The whole is quite regular.
...Among the large numfber of houses and rooms uncovered, I noted that
several revealed wealth and refinement. In some of them, the walls were
still roughcast with a fine, glossy and glazed cement; in others, this
roughcast had been coloured; sometimes it was simple and plain,
sometimes it was adorned with several mouldings...
In the current state of these ruins, it is exceedingly difficult to say
what these vast edifices and the multitude of small apartments of which
they are composed were built for. The whole is characterised by an
impressive size and the endless divisions that can be noted evoke a
mere maze today. A main entrance decorated with a rich peristyle can be
made out; there probably stood and altar, farther on were the kitchens;
on this side, vast apartments seem to indicate military lodgings and
shops on that side; on the right rooms adorned with columns and on the
left plainer ones; at one end of this vast precinct, the lodgings of a
doorman and opposite, a public square...
In some of these houses, we sometimes found marbles, sometimes granites
or porphyres which had been used to decorate them... some were adorned
with columns, many were colourful inside. Acqueducts, masonry conduits
or lead pipes went under several houses to convey water to each of
them, to the fountains or to the public baths."
All the painting fragments we found come from red-coloured frescoes.
However I noticed that some must have been part of larger colourful
paintings. These represent white and blue draperies on a reddish
background..."
The Voltinia tribe
Two inscriptions (in Mons Seleucus and Serres la Croix) evoke a
so-called "Attius" inscribed in the Voltinia tribe listing the citizens
of Narbonensis, which suggests that it is the same person or the same
family.
There is an inscription in
La Bâtie Montsaléon with the name of "L. Attius":
Diis Manibus, Lucius
Attius Lucii filius Voltinia tribe, Tertullus sibi et vivus fecit
Pierre Gillet:
"...From the plans of the edifices discovered, it was a town and from
L. Attius Tertullus's inscription, it existed two centuries
before
Magnentius's defeat. The beauty and the shape of the signs, the names,
the mentioning of the Voltinia tribe, and the objects found during the
excavations related to pagan religion only, seem to give evidence of a
more ancient existence..."
A marble block was found in Serre la Croix. It was 0.80m high and 0.45m
wide and deep.
Héricat de Thury:
"... It seems to come from a votive altar; the upper part is slightly
hollowed out; on one of the sides, there is quite a deep notch which
probably held a lead-soudered tenon.
The examining of the letters which are from the right time, allows us
to suppose that the inscription dates back to the middle of the Empire.
Here is the reading that we will propose : Lucio Attio Maximo Voltinia
Flaminicus Ex Voto.
... These two inscriptions prove that L. Attius must have held an
important post or must have been famous, either in the Vocontii city or
in Mons Seleucus (...).
...Other inscriptions confirm the name of the tribe to which the
Vocontii belonged, that is, the Voltinia tribe, and consequently that
they came under Latin law.
Cults in Mons
Seleucus
"The tall columns at the entry of the Doric temple were made of a
chalky granular stone composed of a large quantity of shell fragments;
these columns were certainly well-proportioned and at least 10m high;
as to the small columns, they were made of compact limestone from the
nearby mountain..."
Statuary:
- Mercury: a bronze statue representing the god sitting on a
rock, with his coat splendidly thrown on his left shoulder; the wings
of his hat are unfold. Unfortunately, that lovely statue is mutilated.
- Mercury:a superb statue of Mercury with his winged hat and a light
coat over his shoulders. He is carrying a bowl in his left hand;
in his other hand, he seems to be holding a caducea which was broken.
He is wearing brodequins on his feet.
- Aesculapius: this god is sitting on a rock. His face is
deeply-wrinkled and thickly-bearded. With his left hand, he is helping
a exhausted-looking child to his feet.
- Triton: this god is riding a fish. Both are made of bronze. He is
holding a spear in his right hand.
- The Museum of Antiquities in Grenoble displays other bronze gods
which were found in the plain of La Bâtie MontSaléon
before the revolution.
- Two statues of Jupiter
- One of Mercury
- One of Diana
- Many of Priapus
- A white marble group... obviously linked to the cult of Mithras...
representing a stout young man in a manly attitude who has just
defeated a bull lying on the ground. With his right foot, the winner is
pressing the bull's hind leg to the ground. The bull's tail is broken
but most likely its tortuous coils were hitting the hero's body. A dog
is rushing on the deep wound that the bull has just received on the
right shoulder. A snake is rising from the ground, getting its head
close to that wound. A scorpion seems to be devouring the bull's
genitals. At the front and at the back, there were two statues, the
front one is holding a torch upside down. This was the work of a famous
artist whose name has been lost. It was discovered in the ruins of a
house which, considering its building and the large number of odd
objects found there, must have belonged to one of the richest
inhabitants of Mons Seleucus.
Bas-reliefs:
- Two bronze chimeras with a woman's face, a lion's body and an eagle's
wings.
- An Etruscan divinity wearing a bonnet with an old woman's face, two
teats and wings. This bas-relief ends with the foot of a fabulous
animal.
- Several heads of Medusa and Silenus.
Ingravings:
- An intaglio ingraving on greenish jade representing Apollo's head.
The god looks inspired with his eyes to the sky and his lyre awaiting
the impulse of genius.
Objects:
- Bronze or iron sacrifice utensils, hooks, cleavers, daggers, axes,
knives and especially "victim knives" found by the main altar; charms,
chains, censers...)
Inscriptions
- A votive altar with a small niche to let the immolated victims' blood
run and a scarrifying knife was found in Buzés (and sold to Mr
Plat, an antiquarian in Orpierre).
Private cults:
" a statue of Terminus: this god is thickly bearded, he is wearing his
hair up in a bonnet which envelops his head, he has a stooping back,
his hands are leaning on his hips, his arms are bent, his legs and
thighs are not proportioned (...), his caudal vertebras form some kind
of a tail which contributes to making this lovely statuette even more
original and bizarre."
A domus in Mons
Seleucus
Gillet's monography:
"The plan of a typical Pompeian house surrounded with yards,
warehouses and gardens clearly appears on the ancient plans. It has a
northwestern and southeastern aspects, and a garden with a peristyle
facing southwest.
This architecture is quite unusual in our harsh-wintered mountain
latitudes ."
Philippe Leveau , Maxence Ségard…:
"The dimension (more than 3500 m∑) and the building quality of the
domus in the centre of the agglomerated settlement are surprising."
"In the area limited by the Brieu path in the northwest, a group of
quadrangular structures can be observed. These structures have a
northeastern / southeastern aspect and cover a 50 m x 40 m space. We
can recognize the plan of a domus characterised by the succession on
the same axis of a portico yard and an atrium, themselves surrounded by
rooms of different shapes and sizes.
A vast yard or a garden, 18 m wide and at least 24 m long, is situated
in the southwest. It is bordered in the northwest and in the southwest
with two long rooms or halls, around 3.5 m long, and in the northeast
with a 6 m wide room extending the portico and stretching along the
whole yard, that is, on 24 m at least. This room leads to a group of
smaller rooms organised around a square atrium of 12.5 m per side and
with a 5 m x 4.5 m central pool.
...We can see a complex group of rooms of different sizes and shapes...
several rooms of a same length (9 m)... a room around 8 mwide framed
with two narrow rooms (less than 2.5m)... several larger
rooms... a 3.5 m x 10.5 m space right next to the atrium, divided
in two rooms and bordered with wider rooms (around 5 m)... It is the
typical plan of the Italian house. The rooms connecting the portico
yard to the atrium would be a tablinium (the central room) and two
fauces... the entrance is framed on both sides with two tall columns
and eight smaller ones, all made of limestone. The main columns are
wider and Corinthian style.
... several rooms appear northwest of the domus... we can recognise
quite large rooms in the south, and a set of smaller and interlinked
ones in the north... some are richly decorated (coloured coating,
marble, columns) and must have been living rooms. Some of the larger
spaces must have been yards or gardens. We can assume that the rooms
situated at the front of the house were shops, whereas workshops and
storerooms stood at the back."
Thermae
The location of the buildings is not certain: "...this building was
situated east of the living area, along the southern part of the
so-called Roman road...". One of the buildings has been searched but
quite incompletely. Janson writes: "when the main part filled with
hachures was discovered, I started to make a plan of it but couldn't
finish as M Duvivier took it into his head to give up that part of the
excavations. When he whimsically resumed the work, I had left La
Bâtie Monsaleon. So I sent Saulnier, my conductor, there to
draw the visible parts. "
Héricart de Thury:
"... Opposite the factory, there was a semi-circular basin of 4 m in
diametre and depth. It was coated with 0,02 C* of lime and cement and
carefully built on a square platform surrounded with conduits and
acqueducts, completely coated too. Not very far, there were tanks
coated with three layers of cement, the third of which was very fine..."
Isabel Béraud:
" Ladoucette's plan and descriptions make it obvious that these
structures were thermae. A 5.20 m x 4.70 m central room with three
apses can be seen:
The northern apse was occupied by a semi-circular basin coated with
lime and cement. This swimming pool is 3.40 m in diametre and seems to
have been coated with concrete consisting of lime mixed with brick
rubble.
The two lateral apses of the same diametre communicated with the
central room through a 0.50 m wide opening. In this room, we can see
two hot-air vents which must have supplied the underground part of
these apses. The central room and the lateral absides can be
interpretated as a hot room with two hot swimming pools... The
praefurniae (after praefurnium : furnace vents) which probably supplied
these swimming pools are not represented on the plan even if they are
mentioned by Ladoucette... Around these rooms whose plan is known,
other thermal rooms have been uncovered. From the probable large scale
of the buildings, these baths could be part of public thermae."
* : metre probably
Building, materials, tools,
decoration
Materials
Héricart de Thury's writings:
"The tall columns at the entry of the Doric temple were made of a
chalky granular stone composed of a large quantity of shell fragments;
these columns were certainly well-proportioned and at least 10 m high;
as to the small columns, they were made of compact limestone from the
nearby mountain...They are composed of 4 or 5 mixed samples ; they were
rough on the surface and without any moulding. The walls are only 60 cm
thick, hardly more than 80 cm; more often, 45 to 50 cm. As to the tall
buildings situated east of these ruins, as neat as varied, I find it
difficult to decide what their use was. In the centre, there is a vast
room whose floor was perfectly unified and in which a large
quantity of coal was found. Aqueducts, masonry conduits or lead pipes
went under several houses".
Ladoucette:
"... lying on a base without torus, and built out of five pieces
gathered by a mortar or a cement as hard as stone.
... Near this building... we can see a semi-circular basin made of lime
and cement which is 4 m in diametre and depth, ovens, and tanks coated
with several layers of a very fine cement.
The materials with which Mons Seleucus was built come from the
mountains and still rouse admiration.
...copper or iron scoria, lead bars or bars of old copper turned to red
or brown oxide, or to green carbonate."
Tools
Tools were found in particular near the factory... such as pliers,
tongs, chirurgical pincers, axes, hammers, a two-handled knife and
other knives, iron spoons, hooks, brass or wrought iron doorbells, well
chains, hinges, keys, paintings, furniture or door decorations, rings,
porous lava millstones, baked clay weights etc,..."
MC Romieu: "Many a time, I saw remains of curved and flat tiles
in the whole area coresponding to the ancient station. These two
different kinds of tiles even seem to have been equally used.
Therefore, I can say that the roofs of this Roman station were the same
as those from Italy."
Trade and industry
Pierre Gillet :
"... in Mons Seleucus, there probably were lots of civil servants,
public figures, sollicitors, etc..
In this area, trade must be quite important, especially in the first
years of the Empire. Importing and exporting were certainly made easier
by the "viae publicae" near Mons Seleucus.
Importing consisted of:
- red pottery which must directly come from Italy.
- red draperies and fine fabrics.
- fine wines.
- artistic pieces of work
- fine stones as marble, porphyry, grey sandstone, etc... for the
monuments
The export industry couldn't consist of anything else than wool
(untreated or fulled), local pottery, wheat and oil. The fourteen large
urns found in 1825 probably came from an oil shop... the different
workers employed in these industries were certainly numerous:
"fullers", shoemakers, bakers, butchers and all sorts of salesmen, then
emancipated slaves, free workers and public slaves (slave plates were
found, some of which had inscriptions on them). Then the rich private
individuals with their clients, their slaves, their families and their
emancipated slaves. Then the middle-class citizens and finally the
natives' descendants: Ligurians, Celts or Gauls living in the region
before the Roman conquest.
The travellers stopping at "Mansio Montis Seleuci" were on their way to
the town. The reasons for travelling were frequent and the travellers
very numerous.
Héricart de Thury:
"... we found the ruins of a large factory made of molass-sandstone.
The inumerable fragments of clay vases, lamps, urns and amphoras
together with the shape of the ruins seem to indicate a vast factory in
which, on one hand, metals were worked and cast, and on the other hand,
different sorts of pottery were made. Not far from this factory...
large apartments which seem to have been the managers' can still be
found; the workers' flats are on another side; behind the
factory, there is a vast precinct where the gardens probably stood.
Finally, in front of these ruins, we can see streets going to the
grand-place and to the avenue where the main building stood.
Philippe Leveau , Maxence Ségard…:
"... The discoveries made near the tall building also consisted of
metallurgy tools (pliers, pokers, pincers, sledgehammers), together
with lead ingots, and copper and iron scoria. We can suppose these
tools are linked to pottery and metallurgy."
Agricultural installations
Philippe Leveau, La Cella Vinaria (le chai):
"... In 1836-37, the diggers unearthed a building 30 to 40 m∑
north-east of the current townhall. It is divided in compartments. In
the eastern part there are nine dolia (amphoras). They are 1.60 m
high and 1.50 m in diameter, big enough to contain two people. On
the other side of the building there is another room containing five
other dolia. Standing in three lines and 1m away from each other, all
the dolia are linked one to the other by semi-circular conduits dug in
the ground. In the center of the building, there is a large room with
three 13 m long slabs dug to make flowing easier. These slabs might
have been part of a wine press separating two cellars.
The tiled basin can be seen as a crush pad from which the must was
distributed to the dolia through drains set in concrete consisting of
lime mixed with brick rubble.The five dolia west of these blocks could
be the containers designed to collect the press wine".
So there was a wine storehouse and therefore a wine activity in the
High Büech."
Héricart de Thury:
Agricultural implements
"Agricultural implements such as scythes, sickles, billhooks, forceps,
pickaxes, iron chisels, knives, or gardening scissors, were found. They
do not look much different from ours.
The town supplies the villae around Mons Seleucus such as the one in
Saxum (Le Saix) with clothes, fabrics, crockery, objets d'art, etc..."
Necropolises
Champuri Necropolis
Eastward, in the Champuri plain, bones, statuettes
and medals were unearthed. The existence of the necropolis excavated in
1805 south-west in the Lachaud plain is confirmed by many inhabitants.
It would be situated today under Mr La til's metallic
shed. During the building of this shed, a large quantity of antique
objects, and especially glass and ceramic balsamaria, were found.
Behind the church choir, a tomb was discovered. Between the two
thighbones of the skeleton lied two purple glass lachrymatory vials,
whereas a black pot, a lamp and a coin of Gallienus were found at
its feet.
La Commanderie Necropolis
One of the necropolises was situated outside the
town in the locality of " la Commanderie". Funeral inscriptions confirm
the presence of monumental tombs, three local sandstones which seem to
have been part of a Roman monument. One of the stone is 1. 45 m long
and 0.52 m high. It bears the following inscription:
IVLIAE . MARCINAE
T VALENTINIVS. MESSI
VIVVS
Le Comte Necropolis (see
below)
2 km north of la Bâtie Montsaléon, down
the Sellas wood hill, Mr Yves Blache discovered several relics in 2003
while doing some excavation works :
Lead funeral urns, plain ceramic jugs, a large glass urn and glass
balsamaria, two saucers made of extremely fine glass, an oil lamp and
several nails, a fragment of bronze ear ring and of pottery.
It might be the burial site of a nearby unmarked rural grouping.
Les Combes Farm
A farmer living in Les Combes Farm, 2 km south of La
Bâtie Montsaléon, unearthed a lead vase weighing around
12.500 kg, a big glass bulb with a wide neck containing charred bones
and woods. Iron nails and lachrymatory vials filled the lead vase.
Sepultures
Gillet's monography:
"The sepulture mode of Mons Seleucus inhabitants probably varied
according to their wealth and importance or maybe to their beliefs and
their customs or even to time.
The corpses were either buried right in the earth, or cremated
(probably during the High Empire), or entombed along the ways (during
the Later Empire and Christian times). There were some bottles which
probably were funeral urns. A kind of lead coffin was found and given
to a plumber from Laragne. "
Cremation
Héricat de Thury:
"... a vast field was used to burn corpses . it was situated south of
the town and at the end of the plain, on the right bank of the Maloise
torrent. Numerous excavations were made and everywhere testimonies of
the last honours that Mons Seleucus inhabitants had made to the remains
of their parents or friends, were found.
From the excavations... I deduce that this ceremony consisted in
digging in the ground, a round pit one meter deep and one meter in
diameter maximum. In that pit, was built a pyre on which the corpse was
put with very combustible substances. Different objects, expensive or
dear to the defunct, made of gold, silver, bronze or even iron, were
thrown onto the pyre with the lachrymatory vials. When combustion was
over, a lamp and vases made of clay, new lachrymatory vials and
one or two urns were put in the pit and over all the gathered ashes.
These sepultures lying at one meter from each other are quite numerous.
Most of the time, the urns are all well-preserved, not too deeply
buried, 50 cm at the utmost and right on the ashes.
Apart from this resting place, urns and lachrymatory vials can also be
found in houses, gathered in kinds of columbaria not too deep
underground."
JCF Ladoucette:
"...Urns containing bones or ashes were found in the resting fields
where tombs are one meter from each other... human bones of a large
size were unearthed in a castle overlooking Mons Seleucus. Brass and
bronze decorations such as bas-reliefs and palmettes, etc were
discovered near the altar."
Coins
Father Charton:
"... 800 medals made of silver, copper and some of gold were found.
They represent the she-wolf, Romulus and Remus, the ox (an agriculture
symbol), Julia, Juliana, Faustina, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Claudius,
Vespasian, Aurelian, Antoninus, Hadrian, Philip, Probus, Maxentius,
Constantinus, Licinius, Magnentius, Constantius and Marcus. The station
still existed under that emperor (5th century)..."
Héricart de Thury:
"6 to 700 Celtic and Roman medals were excavated; some are made of
gold, others of silver and most of themof bronze. Among the medals
studied, many represented the she-wolf feeding Romulus and Remus,
others featured an ox on the reverse. Some are known as Nemausus
medals".
Recent
discoveries in Le Comte Villa.
Further to excavating works in Le Comte hamlet, which started in
September 2002, gullies in a slope brought out two lead urns in Summer
2003. They were examined by Maxence Segard from the Regional
Archaeology Department, who made the following report:
The remains are situated on the outskirts of the hamlet, down the
Sellas wood Hill, on the right bank of Petit Buëch. The site is
new.
Stratigraphic
observations:
The relics correspond to several coal levels: two funeral lead urns and
five plain ceramic jugs. The coal and the artefacts are situated at the
same level, but the state of the cross section (which is non vertical,
very compact clay) did not allow to define the stratigraphic
relations.
Here are the observations that can be made though:
- Each one of the two urns is associated to a coal level.
- Each associated urn and coal level are at the same altitude.
- The jugs were arranged between the two urns.
- The coal levels contain many bone fragments and nails.
- The jugs and the urns are all set with their opening up [...] ”
The
urns
Both urns are made of lead.
The first one looks like a purse with the opening upward, but its
closing system did not really protect the objects inside (a large glass
urn and seven glass balsamaria). The fragment of an earring was
discovered nearby.
The second urn was 1m50 away from the first one and seems more neatly
made. It is cylindrical, with a sealed bottom and a round lid with
perpendicular edges which allowed an excellent preservation of the
contents. Indeed it was intact, except for the ash vase, probably
broken by the impact of the excavation. The urn is adorned with
branches and foliage on the lower part whereas a face is drawn on the
upper part.
This urn contained another large glass urn identical to the one
discovered in the first urn. In this glass urn, there were charred
bones and a clay oil lamp decorated with a rooster over two small
dishes made of very fine glass.
The
following objects were also found nearby
- Several clay jugs, plain ceramics with an egg-shaped belly, a
narrow neck and a sole handle.
- Many nails.
- The fragment of a bronze earring.
- The fragment of a burnt ceramic, which may suggest the presence of
gifts on the pyre.
- Small fragments of balsamaria, the possible evidences of other
cremations.
To conclude, Maxence Segard says that" the existence of a Roman burial
site is certain. The coal levels correspond to the remnants of a pyre,
probably in a pit previously dug. A lead urn containing a part of the
defunct's remains and a few objects was put in each pit. Jugs were
arranged around that urn too. The absence of ferrous clay clearly
indicates that the pyre had not been built on the spot. Consequently,
we can say that it is a secondary cremation with the transfer of the
defunct's remains and in this very case, of the whole pyre.
Le Comte Necropolis cannot be the limit of Mons Seleucus Roman town as
it is too far from it. It rather seems to be the burial site of a
nearby unmarked rural grouping".
photos
Objects found
at different times
Art , Statues,
decorations
Héricart de Thury::
"...In the ruins of a house, a very large quantity of rough alabaster
pieces which seem to have been chiselled were discovered. They may
indicate the dwelling of a sculptor.
- A bronze she-wolf. From its attitude and its broken parts, we can say
that it comes from a group composed of a cart carrying a figure, drawn
by two she-wolves which had, each of them, a disc under one front paw.
Thus we can strongly suppose that this figure evokes the city of Rome.
- A white marble finger of a perfect dimension which must have belonged
to a statue about 2m27 high.
- A brass she-tiger, 5 cm high and 10 cm long.
- Fragments of well-preserved mosaics, identical to those we can find
in every antique shop
Décors
Ladoucette:
"... In several rooms, one meter under the surface of the ground,
red painted glazes as smooth as marble were discovered.
... as to painting, only one sample of blue and white drapery on a
reddish background was found."
Héricart de Thury :
"Our painting fragments all come from frescoes and are mostly red.
However, I noticed some which must have been parts of larger and more
colourful works.
...Fragments of mosaics were found in several apartments of the tall
edifice and the surrounding houses. They are well- preserved and
identical to those we can find in every antique shop."
Statues
"They are designed to represent:
- gods
- famous figures
- sacred and pagan celebrations
- important events in history or in fable
Bas
reliefs
- a bronze disc of 0.14 m in diameter which was the bump of a shield
- two bronze chimeras with a woman's face, a lion's body and an
eagle's wings
- an Etruscan divinity
- several heads representing Medusa and Silenus
- several fragments of marble bas-reliefs
Natural history objects
Natural history objects were found in houses situated near the factory
which were probably shops. They consist of different minerals, sea
shells from far away, the remains of earth animals and especially
felines. There are many elephant and lion teeth, stag antlers, etc..."
Vases
"A very
large number or bronze, glass and clay vases for civilian or religious
use were discovered. They are decorated with the most elegant drawings.
Many represent hunting scenes, others bear the name and the brand of
the maker. Several amphoras were found, one of which was still tinted
with the colour of the wine it had contained...
Generally the glass works are quite curious. For instance, a gobelet
artistically chiselled, whose base represents a strong head with the
features of a Burgundy king."
Military
equipment
Héricart
de Thury:
"... parts of swords, spearheads, javelins, broken helmets and the
fragments of a shield were discovered. The shield is 1m in
circumference and 4mm thick. The iron it is made of is covered with
copper and lined with silver, which proves it to belong to an important
warrior.
Everyday
instruments
Héricart de Thury
"...Several instruments made of silver, copper, ivory or bone were
found: toiletries and bath instruments, writing and geometry materials,
musical instruments, toys, bracelets, earrings, enamelled hearts on
bronze, metallic mirrors, plucking pincers, buttons, staples, pins,
needles, awls, spindles, strigils of different styles and sizes and
flutes. We can see an empty cylinder, bulbous in its middle, open at
its two ends and its upper part. We can suppose this instrument was a
water level..."
Places where the objects are preserved
Most of the objects have been deposited in the Hautes Alpes
Departmental Museum in Gap. This collection is composed of objects
found during the XIXth c. excavations, and private collections. It
includes 79 objects of all sorts (ceramics, bronzes, jewels, weapons,
etc...).
A hundred objects have been deposited in Grenoble, in the Dauphinois
Museum. This collection is composed of gifts from collectors, of items
collected by Hyppolite Müller around 1900, of Paul Plat's
collection bought in 1971, and finally of the objects found during the
excavations achieved by Michel Colardelle in La
Bâtie-Montsaléon in 1972.
This collection was recorded by Stéphane Bleu in 1998.
Christophe Barbier provided the photo coverage of it.
Calvet Museum in Avignon received three objects recorded since the
XIXth century: a sculpted group representing Bacchus and Ariadne, the
bronze statue of a child, and a lead weight. Today, only the statue of
the child is still in the museum; the other objects have disappeared.
The Museum of Mediterranean Archeology in Marseille possesses 22 bronze
rings discovered during the 1805 excavations.
In the walls
of the current village
Carved stones in the walls of the current village evoke the Gallo-Roman
past.
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