ALBIAS
Tarn-et-Garonne, France.
Near the
low hill of Sainte-Rafine, a ford allowed the Roman
road from Toulouse to Cahors to cross the Aveyron.
Cosa, whose name appears on the
Peutinger Table, was
a center of some importance from the time of Augustus on. A Gallic coin imitating an Ampurias drachma
was found in the bed of the Aveyron. The site itself,
which extended along the left bank of the river, has
produced a large number of Roman coins and terra
sigillata, among other finds. Some of the coins came
from Italy, the pottery from Montans and La Graufesenque.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Capitaine Nougarède, “Cosa-Hispalia,”
Bull. de la Soc. arch. de Tarn-et-Garonne 62 (1934) 77-123 (avec les remarques critiques d'E. Espérandieu,
BCTH [1936-37] 94-95); M. Labrousse & B. Frédefon,
“Trouvailles romaines à Sainte-Rafine, commune d'Albias
(Tarn-et-Garonne),”
Actes du X° Congrès d'études de la Fédération des Soc. académiques et savantes Languedoc-Pyrénées-Gascogne (
29-31 mai 1954) 77-91; Labrousse et al., “Les découvertes de Cosa,”
Bull. de la Soc. arch. de Tarn-et-Garonne (1959) 31-73, figs. 1-18; Labrousse, “Imitation gauloise de drachme ampuritaine trouvée dans l'Aveyron, sur le site de
Cosa (Tarn-et-Garonne),”
Ogam 14 (1962) 185-93; id., réédition de Guillaume Lacoste,
Hist. générale de la province de Quercy (1968) I xxiii.
For a review of the findings, cf. Labrousse,
Gallia 13
(1955) 216; 15 (1957) 274; 20 (1962) 605-6 & figs.
67-68; 22 (1964) 470-71 & fig. 52; 24 (1966) 446 & fig.
39; 26 (1968) 555.
M. LABROUSSE