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VEDENE (Town) PROVENCE
Vedene ("Vindalium") Vaucluse, France.
A commune 9 km NE of Avignon. It has been identified by certain scholars with
the ancient Vindalium of Strabo, where the famous battle was fought in 120 B.C.
between the Roman legions of consul Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus and the Gallic army
of the Allobroges aided by the Voconces. In 1965, at the place called Confines,
Aiguille quarter, several large blocks of calcareous sandstone, in a row, were
uncovered. Hasty probes carried out underwater revealed no archeological deposit
but confirmed the existence of the foundations of two parallel walls of considerable
height running NE-SW, ca. 1.5 m apart and constructed of stone blocks arranged
either lengthwise or as headers. One of the blocks is decorated on one side, above
two string moldings and one level molding, with a plant scroll with rosettes and
quadrilobate flowers. This is apparently a rampart wall, with some reused materials,
perhaps belonging to the monument erected by the Romans to commemorate their victory
(according to the Latin historian Annius Florus).
A. Dumoulin, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Jan 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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