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Orbe-Boscéaz, also named Boscéay, is an archaeological site in Switzerland, located at the territory of the town of Orbe (Vaud).
Description[edit]
On the site of Boscéaz, there are five pavilions protecting the most important complex of Roman mosaics in Switzerland[1], with a reception center. This complex decorated a big Roman villa built between the first and the third century AD, including private baths and a temple dedicated to Mithra[2].
The first known mosaics have been discovered in 1841[3], those of the Triton and of the Labyrinth in 1845 (that one was reburied the same year, then rediscovered in 1930), the one of the Divinities in 1882, the one with laurel leaves in 1863 (reburied and rediscovered several times up to 1925), and the one of Achilles on the island of Skyros en 1993, under restoration[4]. The fisrt scientific excavations are done only in 1896, and the site is classified as historical monument in 1900. In 1976, aerial photographs show the plan and the extent of the villa, whose residential part was more than 200 meters long.
Between 1986 and 2004, the villa was the school site of the students in archaeology of University of Lausanne[5]. These excavations allowed the study of the whole residential part of the domain (including the discovery of the ninth mosaic, in restoration[6]). They also allowed to determine that the site has been occupied since the Neolithic, but also during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
The whole site is classified as Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. A reception center presents a scale model of the villa, a n introduction video and a shop.
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Mosaic of the deities of the week: nowadays view -
Mosaic of the deities of the week: March -
Mosaic of the deities of the week: Jupiter and Ganymedes -
Detail of the Mosaic of the rustic procession -
One of the medallions of the mosaic of the Triton -
Detail of the mosaic of squares and diamonds
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Bibliography[edit]
- Albert Naef (1905). Les mosaïques de Boscéaz près Orbe. Imprimerie L. Vincent.
- Samuel Walter Poget, Louis Decollogny et Maurice Barbey (1929). Urba : mosaïques et vestiges romains de Boscéaz, près Orbe. Orbe: Éditions Velay.
- Samuel Walter Poget (1932). Le milliaire romain de Boscéaz près Orbe. Éditions Velay.
- von Gonzenbach Victorine, Les mosaïques romaines d'Orbe, Société suisse de Préhistoire et d'Archéologie, coll. " Guides archéologiques de la Suisse ", 1974
- Laurent Flutsch (1997). La villa gallo-romaine d'Orbe-Boscéaz et ses mosaïques. Guides archéologiques de la Suisse (in French). Fondation Pro Urba.
- Dubois Yves, Urba II., Ornementation et discours architectural de la villa romaine d'Orbe-Boscéaz, Lausanne, Cahiers d'Archéologie Romande 163-165, 2016
- Luginbhül Thierry et al., Vie de palais et travail d'esclaves, La villa romaine d'Orbe-Boscéaz, Lausanne, 2001, 120 p. (document available in pdf on this page )
- Paunier Daniel, Luginbhül Thierry et alii, Urba I. La villa romaine d'Orbe-Boscéaz, Genèse et devenir d’un grand domaine rural, Lausanne, Cahiers d'Archéologie Romande 161-162, 2016
References[edit]
- ^ "Orbe Roman mosaics". yverdonlesbainsregion.ch. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
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- ^ "pro-urba | Mosaïques". pro-urba. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
- ^ "Orbe". archeoplus.ch. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ "Boscéaz-Mosaïques". orbe.ch. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
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