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House, rue Nationale

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

House, rue Nationale

House

Baths of La Planchette

Keywords

House Description

This house is 240 meters northeast of the Maison Carrée at the angle of rue Nationale and rue la Ferrage on a 250-square-meter parcel. Salvage excavations were conducted in 1978-79. The known surface exceeds 140 square meters and one can estimate its total surface to have been between 400 and 600 square meters. It was probably turned towards the decumanus on the south, under the present rue Nationale. The location of the entrance from the outside is not known, but one entered the courtyard by a vestibule on its south side. Construction goes back to the Augustan period, near the year A.D. 1. The house, remodeled in the second half of the first century, was occupied two or three centuries; strata dated from the fourth century indicate abandonment by that time. The best known part is the courtyard with peristyle of 62 square meters and ornamented in its center by a rectangular pool. The galleries were paved in opus signinum sown with little crosses of black tessera.

Only about half of the rather deep pool has survived. The base of a fountain is found to the east of the pool. A gutter leads from this base towards the southeast corner of the peristyle.

Plans

Plan of House, rue Nationale

Dates

A.D. 1

Bibliography

  1. J.L. Fiches, A. Veyrac, Nîmes, CAG, 30/1, 1996, P. 375-379

  2. P.Gros, J. Guyon, Ph. Leveau, dir.,La maison urbaine d'époque romaine, Atlas des maisons de la Gaule narbonnaise, t. II, Doc. d'Archéol. Vaucl, 6, 1996, Nîmes, fiche n°2 P. 192-193.(worldcat)

  3. M. Monteil, Nîmes antique et sa proche campagne, Monographie d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne, 3, 1999, P. 157-172.(worldcat)

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