House with the Painted Portico
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
saint-roman-en-gal
saint-roman-en-gal (Pleiades)
Sublocation
House with the Painted Portico
House
House with the Painted Portico
Keywords
- porticoesAAT:300004145
- courtyards (uncovered spaces)AAT:300004095
- columns (architectural elements)AAT:300001571
- apsed pools
House Description
This house was destroyed to build the market and lies under it, but it is partly visible through glass plates in the floor. It was occupied approximately from 60 to 140. The lot covered 947 square meters and has two façade porticoes, one on the rue du Commerce and one on Voie III. The house was arranged around a central trapezoidal courtyard [1] (roughly 7,50 x 6,50 m) which may have been a garden. There were porticoes on only the north and east sides [2 and 3]. They had pounded earth floors; their black and green painted columns give the house its name. A one-meter wide channel pool ran around the north, east and south sides. Later, this pool was made shallower and its bottom covered with a concrete containing calcite crystals. A rectangular pool (5 x 2 m) with an axial apse of 1 meter closed the U-shaped channel pool on the west. A single cutting pot was found during the excavation.
Plans
Bibliography
Maison 1996, t. II,, p. 392-393
Guide Du Site Saint-Romain-En-Ga. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999, P. 52-53.worldcat
Recherches Archéologiques a Saint-Romain-En-Gal (1988-1990). Vienne, 1992, P. 45-83.worldcat
Places
- Narbonensis (province) Pleiades: 981537
- Gallia Narbonensis (province) TGN: 7030317
- Saint-Romain-en-Gal (inhabited place) TGN: 5004109