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Montmaurin

villa
Type
villa

Montmaurin

Pleiades ID: 246506

villa mine

Description

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 25 F2 Montmaurin

See Further

  • BAtlas 25 F2 Montmaurin
    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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  • Bedon 1984 64, 76
    Bedon, R. Les Carrières et Les Carriers de La Gaule Romaine. Paris: Picard, 1984. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/420603957.
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  • PECS (Perseus), MONTMAURIN Haute-Garonne, France
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  • Wikipedia (French) Villa gallo-romaine de Montmaurin
    Wikipédia: L’encyclopédie libre que chacun peut améliorer (2001-), Villa gallo-romaine de Montmaurin.
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  • Mérimée PA00094397: Ruines de la villa gallo-romaine
    Mérimée. Ministére de la Culture (France), 2014. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Espace-documentation/Bases-de-donnees/Merimee-consultable-depuis-le-moteur-Collections.
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  • SITE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE MONTMAURIN
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Names

Creators & Contributors

H.S. Sivan S.J. Keay R.W. Mathisen DARMC R. Talbert Sean Gillies Johan Åhlfeldt Jeffrey Becker Tom Elliott

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Montmaurin" Pleiades, 19 January 2021. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246506.
Last modified: 2021-01-19T19:48:11Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

MONTMAURIN Haute-Garonne, France.

From 1947 to 1960 a rich Gallo-Roman villa on the left bank of the Save has been excavated and restored. Its presence at the center of a vast agricultural domain probably goes back to the middle of the 1st c. A.D. In the time of Constantine it was transformed into a luxurious rural residence which combined the pursuit of comfort with the opulence of adornment with marbles and mosaics.

One km downstream on the same side of the Save, a sanctuary of the waters was built around the deified spring of La Hillère. It had cult sites, a caravansary, and a market. The sacred character of the place lasted into the Christian period and until the present.

The villa is open to the public, as is a small museum in the village of Montmaurin.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

G. Fouet, La villa gallo-romaine de Montmaurin, Gallia suppl. XX (1969), rev, by O. Brogan in AJA 75.4 (1971) 457. For La Hillère: M. Labrousse in Gallia 13 (1955) 207 & fig. 8; 22 (1964) 440-42 & fig. 8; 24 (1966) 420-21P; 26 (1968) 526-28 & figs. 10-11; 28 (1970) 407.

M. LABROUSSE

Nearby Points of Interest

Montmaurin

1157m away

Charlas

3961m away

Location

43.21621, 0.6453