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Les Près-Bas Roman Villa

Pleiades ID: 148161

villa

Description

A Roman farm villa with extensive second-century CE Gallo-Roman mosaics, located at modern Les Près-Bas, just south of Loupian in Hérault, France. The site was occupied for more than 600 years.

See Further

  • BAtlas 15 B3 Les Près-Bas
    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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  • Lavagne 1976
    H. Lavagne, D. Rouquette, and R. Prudhomme. “La Villa Gallo-Romaine Des Près-Bas à Loupian (Hérault).” Gallia.  Fouilles et Monuments Archéologiques En France Métropolitaine 34 (1976): 215–35.
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  • Lavagne 1981
    H. Lavagne, D. Rouquette, and R. Prudhomme. “Les Nouvelles Mosaïques de La Villa Gallo-Romaine de Loupian (Hérault).” Revue Archéologique de Narbonnaise 14 (1981): 173–203.
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  • Wikipedia (French) Villa gallo-romaine de Loupian
    Wikipédia: L’encyclopédie libre que chacun peut améliorer (2001-), Villa gallo-romaine de Loupian.
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  • PECS (Perseus) LOUPIAN Canton of Mèze, Hérault, 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) Loupian Roman villa
    Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.
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Citation Information

S. Loseby. "Les Près-Bas Roman Villa" Pleiades, 05 March 2025. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148161.
Last modified: 2025-03-05T03:48:57Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

LOUPIAN Canton of Mèze, Hérault, France.

A large and luxurious Gallo-Roman dwelling situated at the locality of Les Prés Bas near the N bank of the Étang de Thau and about 1 km S of the Via Domitiana. Current excavations have uncovered five rooms completely and four others partially. Almost all these rooms have polychrome mosaic pavements in geometric and storied design; they are very late and laid above more sober Early Empire mosaic floors. This sumptuous villa was mainly occupied in the Late Empire, in the 4th and 5th c. A.D. The architectural remains are protected and on view.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Informations,” Gallia 22 (1964) 493I; 27 (1969) 395; 31(1973) 494-95I.

G. BARRUOL

Nearby Points of Interest

Mèze

1722m away

[Frontiana]

3095m away

Borne milliere, Mèze

3175m away

Location

43.4401, 3.6143