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Le Pinard, House B

Contributor: Yichen Liu
Published: 2021-04-21
Modified: 2025-06-29

Province

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.

Location

Sublocation

Le Pinard, House B

House

Le Pinard, House B

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House Description

This house is also 120 southwest of the theater, in front of house A. Excavated in 1967-1968, the parcel covers 450 sq m, with a useful covered surface of 401.5 sq m. It was constructed in the second century. Only the southwest corner is known; the rest is lost or not excavated.

On entering from the east-west street, after passing through two incidental rooms, one comes into a vast space [1] occupied by a pool of about 2.5 x 3.5 m connected by a ditch to the sewer in the street. This room, in which some see an atrium (?), may be a vestibule with pool connecting with the entrance of which the tower may have been treated as a garden (?). [This makes no sense to me; how can a tower be treated as a garden? Maybe "tour" (tower) was supposed to be "cour" (courtyard).]

Plans

Plan of Le Pinard, House B

Dates

A.D 101-200

Bibliography

  1. La Maison Urbaine D'époque Romaine: Atlas Des Maisons De Gaule Narbonnaise. Vaucluse: Service d'archéologie du Conseil général de Vaucluse, 1996, P. 80-81. (worldcat)

  2. Chr. Fraisse, J. Dupraz, L'Ardèche, CAG 07, Gap, 2001, P. 154

  3. Gros, Pierre. L'architecture romaine: du début du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire. 1, 1,. Paris: A. et J. Picard, 2011, P. 190-191.(worldcat)

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