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Arnesp, Valentine

villa
Type
villa

Arnesp Roman villa, Valentine, Haute-Garonne

Pleiades ID: 249997

villa

Description

A luxurious Late Roman villa near the Garonne River.

See Further

  • BAtlas 25 F2 91
    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), VALENTINE Haute-Garonne, France
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  • Fouet 1984, 153-73
  • Villes 487
    Maurin, Louis, ed. Villes et agglomérations urbaines antiques du Sud-Ouest de la Gaule : histoire et archéologie : deuxième colloque Aquitania, Bordeaux, 13-15 septembre 1990. Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1990. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28708086.
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  • CIL XIII, 128
  • Arnesp, the villa of a provincial aristocrat (Valentine, Haute-Garonne)
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  • Gallo-Roman Villa of Valentine
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  • THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE OF VALENTINE
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Creators & Contributors

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

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Arnesp Roman villa, Valentine, Haute-Garonne" Pleiades, 05 June 2019. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/249997.
Last modified: 2019-06-05T02:45:44Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

VALENTINE Haute-Garonne, France.

In the district of Arnesp, on the alluvial terrace of the Garonne, a sumptuous villa of the Late Empire is comparable to that at Montmaurin in its monumental plan and its marbles and mosaics. Excavations have begun. The SW portion was successively occupied by a pagan mausoleum, an Early Christian necropolis, a barbarian necropolis, a Carolingian (?) chapel, and the mediaeval church which was the priory of Arnesp.

This villa probably belonged to Nymfius, an important personage of the 4th c., who is known from a metrical inscription (CIL XIII, 128) now in the Musée des Augustins at Toulouse.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

H.-P. Eydoux, Résurrection de la Gaule (1961) 333-60; G. Fouet, Rev. de Comminges 78 (1965) 173-76; cf. M. Labrousse, “Informations,” Gallia 9 (1951) 133-34; 17 (1959) 430-33P; 22 (1964) 449-50; 24 (1966) 428-29; 26 (1968) 537.

M. LABROUSSE

Nearby Points of Interest

Labarthe-Rivière

2325m away

Ardiège

4794m away

Location

43.096122, 0.688991