Places in Gallia Narbonensis:

Alba Helviorum (5 gardens)
Andance (2 gardens)
Arausio (5 gardens)
Arelate (2 gardens)
Aix-En-Provence (8 gardens)
Briord (1 garden)
Caumont Sur Durance (1 garden)
Cavalaire Sur Mer (1 garden)
Die (1 garden)
Forum Julii (6 gardens)
Geneva (2 gardens)
Nemausus (7 gardens)
Saint Roman En-Gal (13 gardens)
Saint Syr Sur Mer Var 83 (1 garden)
Taradeau (1 garden)
Tolouse (1 garden)
Tourves (1 garden)
Vasio Voncontiorum (2 gardens)

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Gallia Narbonensis

Province Description

Ancient Roman colony (founded 118 BCE) and senatorial province located in modern southern France, along the Mediterranean. This province had stronger cultural and political ties to Italy than the rest of Gaul.

Places

60 garden articles in Gallia Narbonensis have been published/drafted:

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This site, the northern part of 5 on the plan of Aix, lay 100 meters from the northern limit of the town. It was uncovered in 1842 by earth movers. It has been only incompletely ...

On the north side, two rooms [1] and [2] are symmetrically placed on either side of a large axial room [3] (about 6 x 5.3 m) which opened onto the street. Its floor was covered ...

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To the northeast there are the baths of la Planchette, today backfilled. This bath complex of modest dimensions may have been attached to the northeast angle of the court of the ...

This vast house lies 120 m southwest of the theater in the southern quarter of the ancient town at a place called le pinard, "the wine" from the pinot grape. Partially excavated ...

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The garden to the south is not completely known. The north gallery (BG), 5.5 meters wide at its widest point, was paved with black-and-white mosaics for at least 35 meters. At ...

The garden was in the square peristyle (9.7 m on a side) with six Corinthian columns on a side. (The east corner has not be found, but can be confidently conjectured, along with ...

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Condition 1: The central building is organized around an atrium which opens to the east on the garden through a 2.9-meter wide portico [3]. This portico extends all along the ...

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Three fragments of a large funerary inscription found in the seventeenth century near a church at Briord (in the territory of the Ambarri) record part of the text establishing a ...

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A funerary monument found near Die and now on the terrace of the courthouse there records an epitaph of (probably) the second or third century consecrated (consecratum) by ...

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The residential part best known was organized around a garden 17 by 20 meters, framed by three wings in a U. At the center of the east wing, the bottom of the U, a grand stairway ...

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This badly preserved building situated on the Plateau des Tranchées was on a terraced slope overlooking Lake Geneva (Lacus Lemanus). Originally built between 20 and 40 A.D., and ...

This villa suburbana in the modern Parc de la Grange lay outside the town on the southern shore of Lake Geneva. The villa, built originally in the mid 1st c. A.D., was extended ...

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Plans Plan of La Plaine, House B under the High School Bibliography Maison 1996, t. II,, p. 362-363 Lancha, Janine. Recueil General Des Mosaïques De La Gaule: Iii. Paris: CNRS, ...

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In the course of the second century, some two meters of fill was added to the garden to bring it up to the same level as the rest of the house. The use of the space was ...

Only its eastern end has been uncovered, and of the rooms for living -- presumably to the west – very little is known. What is known is a large peristyle of unusual form with a ...

A century passed before further major modifications. Then the eight columns of the vestibule on the south were removed, and the mosaic floor with the heads of the ocean gods in ...

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Plans Plan of Villa des Baumelles Bibliography Brun, Jean-Pierre. Carte Archéologique De La Gaule: 83, Le Var 1. Paris, 1999, vol.2, P. 639-649, plan P. 641. (worldcat) Bouet, ...

Plans Plan of The Villa of Saint Martin Bibliography Brun, Jean-Pierre. Carte Archéologique De La Gaule: 83, Le Var 1. Paris, 1999, vol.2, P. 765-771, plan P. 765. (worldcat) ...

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Located to the east of the house of the Laurel-crowned Apollo, 110 meters south of the theater, the Sanctuary with Porticos is not entirely unearthed and continues under the ...

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