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Aire-sur-l'Adour

civitas

Ancient

*Atura/Vicus Iulii

Ancient
*Atura/Vicus Iulii
Type
civitas

*Atura/Vicus Iulii

Pleiades ID: 246201

settlement

Description

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 25 E2 *Atura/Vicus Iulii

See Further

  • BAtlas 25 E2 *Atura/Vicus Iulii
    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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  • Vieillard-Troiekouroff 1976.3
  • CAG 40.001
  • PECS (Perseus), VICUS IULII (Aire sur l'Adour), Dept. Landes, France
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  • RE Aire
    Pauly, August Friedrich von, Georg Wissowa, Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, and Konrat Ziegler, eds. Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. 83 vols. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894.
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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. "*Atura/Vicus Iulii" Pleiades, 13 November 2021. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246201.
Last modified: 2021-11-13T18:56:01Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

VICUS IULII (Aire sur l'Adour), Dept. Landes, France.

On the ancient road joining Aginnum and Burdigala at Beneharnum (Lescar). On the banks of the Bitou are the remains of a temple dedicated to Mars Lelhunnus; 29 votive altars were discovered here in 1884. On the site of the vicus itself mosaics have been known since 1651, in 1888 located in the garden of the bishop's palace. Other mosaics, of the late Empire (decorative geometric design of octagons) were found in 1928. After the invasion of A.D. 276, Diocletian authorized a rampart for Vicus Iulii. The episcopal seat is dated to 506.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

C. Lacoste, “Mosaïques gallo-romaines des Landes,” Bull. de la Soc. de Borda (1961) 231; 1. Coupry, “Informations arch.,” Gallia 25.2 (1967) 365.

M. GAUTHIER

Location

43.700062, -0.262294