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Introduction The paintings in the peristyle The paintings in the outer porticus The silver hoard The Gallo-Roman temple |
A Gallo-Roman temple, situated some 100 meters to the south of the enclosure, was discovered on aerial photos and excavated in 2000-2002. A first simple building, measuring 4 x 5 m., was erected in the early first century, and rebuilt later with a slightly different orientation. In the middle of the first century a wooden temple with a surrounding porticus was built a bit to the south. In the early second century it in turn was replaced, by a stone temple. It measured 16.80 x 16.80 m. Remains were found of a larger-than-life limestone statue of an enthroned female deity.
Plan of the temples. Interrupted line: older, wooden temple; 1-3: votive pits. Ebbutt et al. 2011, 57.
Behind the temple two votive pits were found. They contained vessels of glass and terracotta (partly intact, partly broken), a few bronze shoe buckles, and a terracotta statuette of a horse with a rider (the horse was found in one pit, the rider in the other).
Terracotta stuatuette of a horse with its rider. Photo: Ebbutt et al. 2011, 57.In front of the entrance of the temple a third votive pit was found, 10 meters away. It contained more than 200 vessels of glass and terracotta (again partly intact, partly broken), two statuettes of Venus, a statuette of a rooster, a little bell, and three coins.
The votive pit in front of the temple. Photo: Ebbutt et al. 2011, 57.
Introduction
The paintings in the peristyle
The paintings in the outer porticus
The silver hoard
The Gallo-Roman temple
[24-Mar-2024]
