House I, Quartier de la Verrerie at Trinquetaille

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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.

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Arles was one of the pilgrimage sites on route to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. French pilgrimage routes to Compostela tend to follow old Roman roads, many of which continued to be utilized as primary roads of communication during the Middle Ages. Arles was a leading city of the west Roman Empire. It fell under Visigoth control during the 6th century and then under Muslims rule in 730. It has a Roman arena dating to the 1st century BCE, which is presently used for bullfights and plays. It also has many Roman ruins. Arles was home to Vincent van Gogh during a productive period of his career.

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House I, Quartier de la Verrerie at Trinquetaille

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House I, Quartier de la Verrerie at Trinquetaille

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This house on the right bank of the Rhone is at [20] on the map. Excavations in 1982-1984, partially uncovered the remains of the building of about 240 square meters. Almost all of the fourteen known rooms of this rich house have mosaic or opus sectile floors. The house revealed by the excavations was built about 180 CE, but three prior phases, from the first and second century, were noted. It was occupied until about 260 and underwent repairs visible in restorations of the mosaics. The free space north of rooms [1], [2] and [9] was probably a garden without porticoes. How far it extended to the north and east is not known.

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Plan of House I, Quartier de la Verrerie at Trinquetaille

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Excavations in 1982-1984

Bibliography

Cl. Sintès, Les fouilles de la verrerie de Trinquetaille, in Cl. SINTES, dir., Du nouveau sur Arles antique, Arles, 1987, p. 81-4.
Rouquette, Jean-Maurice, and Claude Sintès. Arles Antique: Monuments Et Sites Paris: Impr. nationale, p. 90-1.(worldcat)

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House under the Crédit Agricole

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House under the Crédit Agricole

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House under the Crédit Agricole

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This house at [14] on the map, was discovered in 1977 in an emergency salvage excavation. It was constructed about 180 and destroyed in the third quarter of the third century. The portion revealed was composed of four rooms, aligned in an east-west direction, with polychrome mosaic floors and a southern wall that was seemingly without openings. Along the north side, however, was a wide portico giving light and air to the rooms. Beyond it, there extended an area that was perhaps a garden.

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Plan of House under the Crédit Agricole

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After original finds in 1979, further vestiges of a domus came to light during salvage excavations in 1993-1994 in connection with expansion of facilities.

Bibliography

J.M. Rouquette, "Les découvertes du Crédit Agricole" in Claude Sintès, dir., Du nouveau sur Arles antique, Arles, 1987, p. 71-7; Maison 1996 t. II, p. 88-89.

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House I, Quartier de la Verrerie at Trinquetaille

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House under the Crédit Agricole

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