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Un site gallo-romain alpin : Gilly (Savoie)

1986; Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/ran.1986.1290

2117-5683

Henri Barthélémy,

During the Gallo-Roman age, the Isère valley used to be one of the three main roads across the Alps, now it is known for its numerous ancient remains. In Gilly, after ten years of excavations we discovered parts of an unknown vicus next to an ancient portorium formaly located in Albertville. It is made of several buildings apparently scattered around the countryside and sheltered from torrents : — a medium sized villa (quite completely dug out) : its peristyle square plan and two mosaïcs seem to have an italic style, and to be the presumed center of an agricultural estate with its typical remains, — around there, several larger buildings were discovered thanks to drillings : under the village of Gilly, a villa and a group of buildings; near the river, an interesting site where we identified a square planned wall, the fana and the concave portico of a sanctuary and a possible rural theater. This vicus had surely some relationship with a fluvial and road trade and we still have to look for the extension and functions of the tollgate of Ad Publicanos.