Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues
The site of Château-Bas (Vernègues, Bouches-du-Rhône), famous above all for its Augustan Roman temple, has yielded a set of pillars decorated either with writhing snakes or with straight rods. As yet there are no known parallels to such pillars. The discovery of a fragment of a pillar reused in a 1s...
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description | The site of Château-Bas (Vernègues, Bouches-du-Rhône), famous above all for its Augustan Roman temple, has yielded a set of pillars decorated either with writhing snakes or with straight rods. As yet there are no known parallels to such pillars. The discovery of a fragment of a pillar reused in a 1st c. AD structure demonstrates that these carvings are ancient. The architectural study of the fragments and comparison with other sculptural elements from southern Gaul suggest they date approximately to the turn of the millenium. The originality of these pieces should perhaps be sought in the copying and adaptation of Italic architectural features (Attic base, Tuscan capital) to a particular form of monument (pillar, stela) and type of decoration (snake) attested in Provence in the Late Iron Age. |
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spelling | doaj-art-d2d3d92dd7ce47e486d09dc22ed9ce7d2025-02-05T15:47:59ZengCNRS ÉditionsGallia0016-41192109-95882013-12-0170212410.4000/129hmArchitecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à VernèguesSandrine Agusta-BoularotRaphaël GolosettiThe site of Château-Bas (Vernègues, Bouches-du-Rhône), famous above all for its Augustan Roman temple, has yielded a set of pillars decorated either with writhing snakes or with straight rods. As yet there are no known parallels to such pillars. The discovery of a fragment of a pillar reused in a 1st c. AD structure demonstrates that these carvings are ancient. The architectural study of the fragments and comparison with other sculptural elements from southern Gaul suggest they date approximately to the turn of the millenium. The originality of these pieces should perhaps be sought in the copying and adaptation of Italic architectural features (Attic base, Tuscan capital) to a particular form of monument (pillar, stela) and type of decoration (snake) attested in Provence in the Late Iron Age.https://journals.openedition.org/gallia/932 |
spellingShingle | Sandrine Agusta-Boularot Raphaël Golosetti Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues Gallia |
title | Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues |
title_full | Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues |
title_fullStr | Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues |
title_full_unstemmed | Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues |
title_short | Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues |
title_sort | architecture antique entre age du fer et epoque imperiale en provence les piliers du site de chateau bas a vernegues |
url | https://journals.openedition.org/gallia/932 |
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