The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, Ed.

SARBAZAN Landes, France.

Gallo-Roman villa of Mouneyres excavated in 1891-92. It consists of a rectangle (40 x 42 m) around a central court, and adjoining constructions; five rooms had mosaic floors with designs of plants and animals (foliated scrolls, vines, grapes, ivy, baskets of flowers and fruit, blackbirds, thrushes). One floor had a design of diabolos. A bath building 200 m SE consists of three rooms, one of them a three-lobed pool paved with a mosaic with a design of dolphins. The villa was used from the 3d c. on.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

“L'Aquitaine Historique et Monumentale,” Bulletin de la Société de Borda (1892) 237-63^MPI; J. Coupry, “Informations,” Gallia^PI 13, 2 (1955) 200; 15, 2 (1957) 254; 21, 2 (1963) 529; 23, 2 (1965) 434; 25, 2 (1967) 365; 27, 2 (1969) 369.

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