Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)

A research programme undertaken at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum of the Convenae uncovered the very levelled remains of a large mausoleum facing the town. The exploration of the surroundings of the monument showed that the building was not part of a cemetery built along an access road to the...

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Main Author: William Van Andringa
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Language:English
Published: CNRS Éditions 2019-12-01
Series:Gallia
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gallia/4646
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description A research programme undertaken at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum of the Convenae uncovered the very levelled remains of a large mausoleum facing the town. The exploration of the surroundings of the monument showed that the building was not part of a cemetery built along an access road to the urban zone, but that it was installed in the centre of a vast esplanade delimited by a large enclosure wall, which could be linked to a residence built in the immediate periphery of the ancient city. Based on the comparable example of funerary monuments of the suburbium of Rome, the Herrane mausoleum can be identified with a monumentum erected in a hortus, which commemorates the memory of a great figure from Lugdunum, probably in the 2nd c. AD.
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spelling doaj-art-375db31b9ade4ec2ae9e515fc7cba5852025-02-05T15:46:40ZengCNRS ÉditionsGallia0016-41192109-95882019-12-01761557010.4000/gallia.4646Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)William Van AndringaA research programme undertaken at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum of the Convenae uncovered the very levelled remains of a large mausoleum facing the town. The exploration of the surroundings of the monument showed that the building was not part of a cemetery built along an access road to the urban zone, but that it was installed in the centre of a vast esplanade delimited by a large enclosure wall, which could be linked to a residence built in the immediate periphery of the ancient city. Based on the comparable example of funerary monuments of the suburbium of Rome, the Herrane mausoleum can be identified with a monumentum erected in a hortus, which commemorates the memory of a great figure from Lugdunum, probably in the 2nd c. AD.https://journals.openedition.org/gallia/4646
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Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)
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title Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)
title_full Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)
title_fullStr Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)
title_full_unstemmed Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)
title_short Face à la ville : le mausolée d’Herrane à Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Lugdunum des Convènes (Haute-Garonne)
title_sort face a la ville le mausolee d herrane a saint bertrand de comminges lugdunum des convenes haute garonne
url https://journals.openedition.org/gallia/4646
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