In Perly rescue excavations of a villa took place in the years 2009-2015. The building was known already in the mid-19th century, and the ruins were investigated by Louis Blondel in 1924 and 1935.
View of the excavations. Genequand 2013, Fig. 1.Two main building phases were recognized. A first building was erected in the middle of the first century. It consisted of two wings with a porticus. In the early second century the villa was enlarged: a row of rooms was added to one of the wings, one heated (L21), and higher columns were installed in the porticus, with capitals of the Tuscan order. A T-shaped basin with a large apse was added in the garden. Secondary buildings were erected to the north. One of these, an almost square building (B; 7.30 x 6.60 m.), had rather wide foundations (0.80-1.10 m.). It has been suggested that it was a shrine or a funerary monument. The villa seems to have been given up in the fourth century.
Plan of the site. Genequand 2013, Fig. 11.
Literature
Genava 3 (1925), 62-64; Genava 14 (1936), 37-40; Genequand 2012; Genequand 2013; Genequand 2015.
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