House with Pilasters (Clos du Verbe Incarné)
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Garden
House with Pilasters (Clos du Verbe Incarné)
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Garden Description
The insula VII of the Clos du Verbe Incarné, excavated from 1977 to 1987, lies on the western slope of a little dip (71 x 34 m) in the upper town, about 160 meters northwest of the center of the top of the theater. In this insula, begun between 40 and 20 BC, one can follow the evolution of this quarter up to the end of the third century. To the north, the insula was bordered by the street called du Capitol and to the west by the street called de Cybèle. The subdivision of the insula was put in place from 15-10 BC. The house occupied 400 square meters, and was organized on an italic plan around a traditional atrium followed by a tablinum[1]. The house of seven or eight rooms did not have a peristyle but did, no doubt, include a hortus[2] (15 x 5 m) at the back of the lot.
The house was originally constructed of adobe on a floor and gutter of granite masonry. Later, in Tibero-Claudian times, a wooden section was added, which facilitated the creation of an upper story on the western part, which also included on the ground level some isolated shops occupying 100 square meters. The neighbor to the north was another small, 315-square-meter house, the Domus with the Mosaic Emblema, which was organized around a four-column atrium, but had no garden. In fact, the House with Pilasters was the only one in the insula to have, without doubt, a little green space. In the southern part of the insula, there were three combinations of house and shop, and another small, 310-square-meter house called the Domus with Lararium.
LUG 1. 1. House with Pilasters. On the rectangle surrounding the word "Garden?" in the upper left corner is the "House with Pilasters." Source, Maison 1996, p.134.
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Bibliography
- E. Delaval, "Un îlot d'habitations romaines à Lyon (Ier siècle av.-IIIe siècle ap.J.C.),Clos du Verbe Incarné,colline de Fourvière," Actes du Ier Congrès Méditerranéen d'ethnologie historique, Lisbonne 4-8 nov. 1991,in Mediterraneo, 4, 1994, p.203-229.
- E. Delaval,"Espace urbain et habitat privé à Lyon,un îlot de la ville haute au cœur d'une opération d'urbanisme au milieu du Ier siècle," in Maison 1996, t.I,p. 128-37, planp.134.