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Mesua

Pleiades ID: 148133

settlement

Description

A Pre-Roman settlement located north of the Étang de Thau.

Evidence

Mela (Ranstrand: PHI) 2.5.6
Mela, Pomponius. De chorographia libri tres. Edited by Gunnar Ranstrand. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 28. Göteborg; Stockholm: Published by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Göteborg] ; Almqvist & Wiksell [distributor], 1971. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/929/1/0.

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See Further

BAtlas 15 B3 Mesua
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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PECS (Perseus) MESUA (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) Mèze
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Mèze.

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Names

Creators & Contributors

S. Loseby DARMC R. Talbert Sean Gillies Johan Åhlfeldt Jeffrey Becker Tom Elliott

Citation Information

S. Loseby. "Mesua" Pleiades, 11 November 2023. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148133.

Last modified: 2023-11-11T23:11:06Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

MESUA (Mèze) Hérault, France.

Pre-Roman settlement on the N bank of the Étang de Thau on a promontory almost entirely surrounded by water (Mel. 2.5.6). Soundings carried out on this little cape, on which was located a port active in antiquity, have revealed that it was occupied from the 6th c. B.C. to the Roman period.

Isolated finds made in the depths of the Thau basin, and in the wrecks which have been discovered there, testify to its frequent use by ancient shipping. It was through the small ports marking the N side of this basin (of which Mèze was the most important) that maritime commerce was connected with the great axis formed by the Via Domitiana, which crosses the territory of Mèze ca. 5 km N of the town. Numerous and important Gallo-Roman estates were situated between the Étang de Thau and the Via Domitiana.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carte archéologique de la Gaule romaine, fasc. X, Hérault (1946) 17, nos. 44-45; “Informations,” Gallia 27 (1969) 396; 29 (1971) 384.

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Nearby Points of Interest

Mèze

Ancient