LA-BASTIDE-L'ÉVÊQUE
Aveyron, France.
1. Ancient marble heads are preserved in the castle of
Requista, one of a faun or satyr, one of an old man. They
may come from 19th c. excavations in the region of
Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
2. At the Rivière farm, a Gallo-Roman votive altar
has recently been discovered. It is 0.9 m high, hewn and
carved from local sandstone.
The finds of sculptures are no doubt connected to the
intensive exploitation of veins of lead containing silver
in the region of Villefranche (
CIL XIII, 1550), from the
beginning of the Empire on.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Albenque,
Les Rutènes (1948) 168-72; M. Labrousse, “Exploitations d'or et d'argent dans le
Rouergue et l'Albigeois à l'époque romaine,”
Actes du
XIVe Congrès d'études régionales de la Fédération des Sociétés académiques et savantes Languedoc-Pyrénées-Gascogne 14-16 juin 1958, 99-103; id. in
Gallia 22
(1964) 432-33 & figs. 10-11; 28 (1970) 398 & fig. 1.
M. LABROUSSE
