POMPEY
Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
The site
of Pompey is an industrial center in the valley of the
Meurthe, near its junction with the Moselle, in the territory of the Gallo-Roman civitas Leucorum. Since 1962
Gallo-Roman remains have been discovered there: the
foundations of a small villa rustica at the locality called
Les Brévelles and a cremation necropolis at the locality
known as Mal-de-Ventre. The excavated portion of the
villa included a large building (18 x 21.2 m) used for
farming and divided into two rectangles of different sizes.
In the SE corner a cellar 2.3 m deep, furnished with air
vents, contained abundant structural debris, notably polychrome wall paintings, as well as iron tools and 4th c.
coins. Near the SW corner an annex sheltered baths: a
bathing pool with a flagged bottom was uncovered; its
walls still preserved some of their waterproof coating.
In 1964 on the site of a house under construction, a stack
of ceramic debris was discovered. There were terra sigillata and common wares (in particular over 450 jug
necks), datable to the end of the 2d or beginning of the
3d c. Several potter's stamps permit the attribution of the
sigillata to workshops in E Gaul. Hard by this dump
there extended a 3d c. necropolis, evidently very poor.
Their ashes were put in or covered by fragments of jugs,
vases, or amphorae which had been broken beforehand.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
L. Geindre,
Pompey sous l'Avant-Garde
(1966) 71-85
MPI; R. Billoret in
Gallia 24 (1966) 277-80
PI.
R. BILLORET
