Provenance of the marble used in the architectural decoration of the Gleyzia d’Augreilh villa (Saint-Sever, Landes, France)
The villa du Gleyzia d’Augreilh, located in Saint-Sever (Landes, France), is associated with a large aristocratic Gallo-Roman villa from the late Roman Empire, which yielded over a ton of marble in a highly fragmented state (more than 2500 fragments). Around 12% of...
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| Samenvatting: | The villa du Gleyzia
d’Augreilh, located in Saint-Sever (Landes, France), is associated
with a large aristocratic Gallo-Roman villa
from the late Roman Empire, which yielded over a ton of marble in a
highly fragmented state (more than 2500 fragments). Around 12% of
these fragments correspond to white or gray-white, primarily used in
the architectural decoration of the villa’s
various parts. Fifteen of these fragments were subjected to
archaeometric analysis: petrography, cathodoluminescence, carbon and
oxygen isotopes, elemental analysis, and NMR. The results were
compared with those of marbles from the Pyrenees to determine their
origin. Two valleys supplied marbles exploited since antiquity: the
Ossau Valley and the Saint-Béat region. The analyses identified two
distinct origins: six samples were clearly identified as coming from
the Ossau Valley, while the others likely originated from the same
unidentified location, but with characteristics similar to those of
the Ossau Valley marbles. These two distinct origins reflect the two
phases of the villa’s occupation: one from the
Late Antiquity and the other from the 5th century pC.
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