AUCH
Gers, France.
Auch was the capital of
the civitas of the Ausci. During the Roman Empire it
was a double town: the old oppidum of Elimberris
dominated the left bank of the Gers; new districts were
built on the flood-plain on the right bank. In these districts of La Hourre, Le Garros, and Matalin, modern
housing construction has allowed one to trace the sewer
network of the ancient town, as well as to discover potters' kilns, rich assemblages of terra sigillata, an inscription concerning a sevir of Augustahis, and dwellings with
mosaics.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. Labrousse, “Inscription romaine
découverte à l'Hôpital d'Auch,”
Bull. de la Soc. arch. du Gers 55 (1954) 347-65 (= P. Wuilleumier,
Inscr.
latines des Trois Gaules [1963] 44-45, no. 135); id.,
Gallia 12 (1954) 221
I; 13 (1955) 210-11
I; 15 (1957) 268; 17 (1959) 415
I; 20 (1962) 578-80
I; 22 (1964) 451-52
I; 24 (1966) 430-31; 26 (1968) 538-39; 28
(1970) 415; id., “Céramique sigillée trouvée à Auch en 1963,” ibid. 65 (1964); A. Péré, “Les vestiges gallo-romains du parc de La Hourre,”
Bull. de la Soc. arch. du Gers 57 (1956) 268-74; id., “Les sites d'Elimberris et
d'Augusta Auscorum,” 65 (1964) 372-82; Péré & M.
Cantet, “Regards sur Augusta Auscorum,” ibid. 65
(1964) 139-58; 66 (1965) 66-74; id., “Fouilles gallo-romaines à Mathalin-Auch,” ibid. 67 (1966) 449-58;
id., “Regards sur Augusta Auscorum: les égouts dans la
ville gallo-romaine,” ibid. 70 (1969) 184-203. Espérandieu-Lantier,
Recueil . . . , XV (1966) 62
I.
M. LABROUSSE
