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EYSSES (Town) LOT ET GARONNE
Excisum (Eysses) Commune of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Dept. Lot-et-Garonne, France.
An important way-station situated N of Agen (Aginnum) at the ancient crossroads
of ways linking Bordeaux to Lyon and Bourges to Auch, Eysses produced various
finds in the course of the 19th c., in the neighborhood of a monument known as
the Tour d'Eysses, which is still partially preserved. It consists today of a
circular structure (diameter, 11 m; average height, 10 m), its walls an average
of 1.1 m thick. The two dressed faces of these walls were covered with rows of
small masonry, among which remain the iron clamps which served to hold in place
a marble revetment. The same characteristics may be seen on the tower of V&esone
in Perigueux. The monument at Eysses belongs, like the latter, to a series of
indigenous temples made up of a cella surrounded by an ambulatory gallery, erected
in the center of a large esplanade surrounded by a peribolos.
Soundings made since 1970 have revealed remains of buildings in the
neighborhood of this sanctuary, which date, according to amphorae and coins, to
the first half of the 1st c. A.D. These recent discoveries have narrowed the proposed
date for the temple's construction to the 1st to 2nd c. The furnishings from earlier
excavations (including a Celtic bronze horse's head) and recent finds, are divided
between the museums of Agen and Vileneuve-sur-Lot.
M. Gauthier, 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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