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Murviel-lés-Montpellier

Iron-Age oppidum
Type
Iron-Age oppidum

Murviel-lès-Montpellier

Pleiades ID: 148138

fortified-settlement settlement

Description

Murviel-lès-Montpellier was an oppidum with three circuit walls located 6 km north of the Via Domitia.

See Further

  • BAtlas 15 B2 Murviel-lès-Montpellier
    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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  • Wikipedia (English) Oppidum d'Altimurium
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Oppidum d'Altimurium.
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  • Favory 1991
    Favory, F. “Le Territoire de Murviel-Lès-Montpellier Dans l’antiquité et Le Moyen Age.” Revue Archéologique de Narbonnaise 24, no. 1 (1991): 63–109. https://www.persee.fr/doc/ran_0557-7705_1991_num_24_1_1380.
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  • PECS (Perseus) MURVIEL-LES-MONTPELLIER 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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  • Mérimée PA00103613: Oppidum pré-romain ou site archéologique de l'agglomération antique du Castellas
    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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See Also

  • RFO 16994
    Åhlfeldt, Johan. Regnum Francorum Online, 2009. http://francia.ahlfeldt.se/.
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Names

Citation Information

S. Loseby. "Murviel-lès-Montpellier" Pleiades, 03 November 2023. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148138.
Last modified: 2023-11-03T17:40:19Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

MURVIEL-LES-MONTPELLIER Hérault, France.

The oppidum of Le Castellas is situated on the foothills NW of Montpellier 6 km N of the Via Domitia. The ancient texts contain no mention of the site, but in the Middle Ages it was known as Altimurium. The oppidum is set on a hill and protected by three circuit walls; these are joined, and probably represent successive enlargements. The walls date from between the end of the 3d c. and the 1st c. B.C.

The site covers an area of 20 ha. Several houses have been uncovered in different areas, as well as a section of the upper rampart and some isolated tombs. Le Castellas was apparently occupied continuously from the 3d c. B.C. to the Late Empire, and perhaps both earlier and later. The early excavations revealed remains of large monuments (columns, fragments of monumental sculpture) that have not yet been uncovered. Nor have the few tombs explored so far clarified the funerary customs. The archaeological depot at the site shows an abundance of material from the 1st c. B.C. and the 1st c. A.D., which seems to have been the golden age of Le Castellas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gallia 12 (1954) 423; 17 (1959) 466-67; 20 (1962) 625-26; 22 (1964) 494; 24 (1966) 468-70; 27 (1969) 397; 29 (1971) 385-86.

J.-C.M. RICHARD

Nearby Points of Interest

Les Gardies

2115m away

Location

43.610211, 3.730575