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Several parts of houses and workshops have been investigated since the late 1970's, for example during the construction of a new underground parking garage at locality La Duche.
View of excavations at locality La Duche in 2005. Photo: Musée romain Nyon.In 2005 three bronze statuettes were excavated at the locality La Duche. One is of Apollo with a quiver on his back, holding a patera and silver laurel branches. A somewhat larger statuette is of Venus holding a mirror. The third is of the triple Hekate, three female deities standing against a column. One of the women, with a crescent moon on her head and a torch in her hand, is Luna. Another holds a jar and a patera for offerings. The third holds a knife and a dog, a sacrificial animal. The statuettes may have been standing in a private shrine, but might also come from a shrine at crossroads, because the triple Hekate represents the Deae Triviae, deities of a place where three roads meet.
Statuettes of Apollo (h. 0.095), Venus (h. 0.154), and the triple Hekate (h. 0.091). Photos: Musée romain Nyon.
In the past many sculptures have emerged in Nyon, unfortunately often without a clear context. Some must have been standing in the gardens of houses: a herm with heads of Bacchus and Ariadne, the head of a Satyr, a child, the head of an athlete, a snake around a goat, and the head of a goat.
Left: upper part of a herm with heads of Bacchus and Ariadne. Found in 1892. Carrara marble. W. 0.176, h. 0.225, d. 0.204.
Right: statue of a child. Marble. W. 0.28, h. 0.385, d. 0.20. Reused in a house, removed in 1872. Photos: Bossert 2002(2), Taf. 1 and 4.A relief with a head of Neptunus or perhaps Hercules was found on the shore of the lake. It may have decorated the gable of a guild temple built by skippers active on the Lac Léman. Also from the shore of the lake comes a relief with a head of Mercurius, a dedication by a man named Ocellio (not necessarily the man we encountered in Germany earlier on).
Left: head of Neptunus or perhaps Hercules. Found shortly before 1875. Limestone. W. 0.26, h. 0.367, d. 0.262.
Right: relief with the head of Mercurius, dedication by Ocellio. Limestone. W. 0.21, h. 0.54, d. 0.17. Found in the 18th century.
MERCVR(io) V(otum) S(olvit) L(ibens) M(erito) OCELLIO. EDCS-10800406; Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 3. Photos: Bossert 2002(2), Taf. 20 and 21.
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