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ΠΕΡΙΓΚΕ (Πόλη) ΝΤΟΡΝΤΟΙΝ
Vesunna Petrucoriorum (Perigueux) Dordogne, France.
Oppidum of the Petrucorii, a federation of tribes organized into a sovereign state,
which answered Vercingetorix' call to arms. After the Roman conquest the city,
following the customary pattern of Romanization, was moved down from the hill
and set up in the valley of the Isle, protected by a bend in the river. Becoming
part of Augustan Aquitania in 27, it flourished until the invasion of 276 when
it became a reduced castrum of 6 ha, girded with ramparts made of the stones of
destroyed monuments.
C laudius had linked this free city to the tribus Quirina; it was the
administrative and religious capital of the region, its public and private monuments
displaying the wealth characteristic of the magnificent imperial cities.
The settlement grew up around the indigenous sanctuary of Tutela Vesunna,
the central cella of which, shaped like a round tower (21 m in diameter, 27 m
high), has been preserved. The cella stood on a paved podium with a colonnade
encircling it, save for a stairway 9.6 m wide that led down to an inner courtyard
(141 x 122 m) with religious buildings on every side (excavated since 1964). South
of the temple was the forum (195 x 100 m), excavated 1908-13 and yielding many
architectural fragments. The amphitheater, built by A. Pompeius Dumnomotus, praefectus
fabrum, was N of the temple; a few stumps can be seen in a public park.
Residential architecture is represented by the Great Villa with its
polyfoil impluvium, and the villa of the Rue des Bouquets (3000 sq. m excavated
since 1959), which contains some important frescos, with geometric, animal, and
flower motifs.
Long sections of the castrum rampart can still be seen: the Mars Gate
(Porte de Mars), Norman Gate (Porte Normande), and part of the Chateau Barriere.
The principal architectural and epigraphic finds are housed in the municipal museum.
A. Blondy, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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