House on rue de la Fraternité
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House on rue de la Fraternité
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Excavated in 1875-79 in the eastern suburbs of the city by A. Ternick, this large house has been uncovered in a roughly elliptical area with axes of 40 and 20 meters. The chronology is uncertain. It was perhaps destroyed by a violent fire (of which there are traces elsewhere in the city) in the second century and not reconstructed. Some walls were decoratively painted; most floors were concrete, but there is some evidence of mosaics. The floor of room [5] (just below room [1] in the plan) had a large slab of black marble in the center in frame with smaller slabs in the corners. The southwest corner of a peristyle and 12 meters along the west side and 10 meters along the south side have been excavated. The galleries had concrete floors and slender Tuscan columns 20 centimeters in diameter and 1.2 meters apart. The walls were painted red. In the center of the peristyle court was a masonry construction considered as an "impluvium" at the time of excavation, but it was quite possibly a pool. If it were a pool, then the area was almost surely in a garden. The house had another interior open court and possible garden [17] of about 6 x 7 meters near a well [25].
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Bibliography
- Alain Jacques, Georges Jelski, "Arras antique, bilan et perspective" in Les villes de la Gaule Belgique au Haut-Empire, Actes du colloque tenu à Saint-Riquier (somme) le 22-23-24 octobre 1982, Revue achéologique de Picardie, p. 124-5. (worldcat)
- Delmaire et al., Le Nord-Pas- de-Calais, 62/1, CAG, p. 145-147, fig. 46, plan p. 145; H. Stern I, 1 p. 101-102.