![]() In the coming months Clement’s team of 20 will dig down to older parts of the site and explore an area containing workshops. The excavations, which began in April, had been due to end in mid-September but have been extended by the French state until the end of the year to allow time for more discoveries. The mosaics are being removed with infinite care and taken away to be restored, with a view to being exhibited in Vienne’s museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation in 2019.Īmong the other finds are a large public building with a fountain adorned by a statue of Hercules, built at the site of a former market.Ĭlement believes it may have housed a philosophy school. In another house, an exquisite mosaic depicts a bare-bottomed Thalia, muse and patron of comedy, being kidnapped by a lustful Pan, god of the satyrs. “We will be able to restore this house from the floor to the ceiling,” Clement said. The archaeologists believe the house belonged to a wealthy merchant. ![]() Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ blaze consumed the first floor, roof and balcony of the sumptuous home, which boasted balustrades, marble tiling, expansive gardens and a water supply system, but parts of the collapsed structure survived. Remains of an entire neighbourhood of the Romain city of Vienne have been uncovered in Sainte-Colombe, with lavish residences decorated with mosaics, a philosophy school and shops. Many of the objects in place when the inhabitants fled were conserved, transforming the area into a “real little Pompeii in Vienne”, according to Clement, referring to the Roman city-state that was largely preserved after being buried by volcanic ash.Īmong the structures to have partly survived are an imposing home dubbed the Bacchanalian House after a tiled floor depicting a procession of maenads (female followers of the god of wine, known as Dionysus or Bacchus) and joyful half-man, half-goat creatures known as satyrs. The neighbourhood, which contains homes dating to the 1st century AD, is believed to have been inhabited for around 300 years before being abandoned after a series of fires. Merchants and tradesmen found food and lodging near the city gates and. Pompeii and the Roman Villa has a section for artists who came along many centuries later (as recently as 2001) finding inspiration in the last days, the rain of fire. Pompeii was a busy port town that exported products throughout the Mediterranean region. The site unearthed on land awaiting construction of a housing complex covers an area of nearly 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft) – an unusually large discovery in an urban area that has been labelled an “exceptional find” by the French culture ministry. It seems artists have always found source material in the lost city. ![]() The city of Vienne – famous for its Roman theatre and temple – was an important hub on the route connecting northern Gaul with the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis in southern France. The Echoes of Pompeii, a Pink Floyd Tribute Show LIVE brought the music of Pink Floyd to ECC in Elgin IL singing 'TIME' Their love for Pink Floyd music is. ![]()
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