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Lectoure

civitas

Ancient

Lactora/Lactorates

Ancient
Lactora/Lactorates
Type
civitas

Lactora

Pleiades ID: 246459

settlement

Description

Lactora was the capital of the civitas of the Lactorates.

Evidence

  • TP (Talbert: CUP) 1B2 (Talbert 757)
    Talbert, Richard. “Database: Peutinger Map Names and Features, with Commentary and User’s Guide.” In Explore the Peutinger Map. Cambridge UP, 2010. http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/prm.html.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 25 F2 Lactora
    Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.
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  • Villes 99-106
    Maurin, Louis, ed. Villes et agglomérations urbaines antiques du Sud-Ouest de la Gaule : histoire et archéologie : deuxième colloque Aquitania, Bordeaux, 13-15 septembre 1990. Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1990. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28708086.
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  • CAG 32 157
    Lapart, Jacques, Catherine Petit, Michel Provost, and J. Leclant. Carte archéologique de la Gaule 32 Le Gers. Paris: Ed. de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres : Ministère de l’Education Nationale et de la Culture : Association pour les fouilles archéologiques nationales (AFAN), 1993. https://worldcat.org/title/30445864.
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  • PECS (Perseus) LACTORA (Lectoure) Gers, France
    Stillwell, Richard, William L MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006.
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  • Wikipedia (English) Lectoure
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Lectoure.
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  • ItMiller 140 Lactorates; Auci
    Miller, Konrad. Itineraria romana: Römische Reisewege an der Hand der Tabula Peutingeriana. Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1916. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6684340.
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See Also

  • RFO 164
    Åhlfeldt, Johan. Regnum Francorum Online, 2009. http://francia.ahlfeldt.se/.
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Names

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Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Lactora" Pleiades, 17 April 2024. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246459.
Last modified: 2024-04-17T19:36:02Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

LACTORA (Lectoure) Gers, France.

The town of Lactora was first part of the province of Aquitaine, then of Novempopulania. It was the capital of the civitas of the Lactorates and one of the high places of the cult of Cybele. Recent investigations, outside the original oppidum, have led to the following discoveries: 1) On the Lamarque plateau there are a series of funerary pits of the 1st c. B.C. 2) In the district of Pradoulin a dwelling which was devastated by the invasions and troubles of the 3d c. has produced three hoards of coins buried under Aurelian and Probus. In the 4th c. it was covered by a group of workshops where potters produced a rather rough red ware decorated with appliqué. 3) In the same district an inhumation necropolis of the Late Empire has produced, among others, an adorned sarcophagus of the School of Aquitaine. 4) At La Payroulère there is a barbarian necropolis of late date.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

R. Etienne, “La chronologie des autels tauroboliques de Lectoure,” Bull. de la Soc. arch. du Gers 60 (1959) 35-42; M. Labrousse, “Les lampes romaines du Musée de Lectoure,” ibid. (1959) 43-67; 65 (1964) 25-30; Mary Larrieu, “Céramiques romaines du Musée de Lectoure,” ibid. 60 (1959) 69-83; M. Larrieu, “Découverte à Lectoure d'un nouveau sarcophage sculpté de l'Ecole d'Aquitaine,” Cahiers archéologiques 18 (1968) 1-12.

For reports on recent excavations see M. Labrousse in Gallia 5 (1947) 476-77 & figs. 10-11; 7 (1949) 138; 24 (1966) 433-35 & figs. 23-26; 26 (1968) 540-43 & figs. 27-29; 28 (1970) 418.

M. LABROUSSE

Location

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