The Gallo-Roman Villa of Séviac is an archeological site located at Montreal-of-Gers the.

Localization

The site of the villa of Séviac is located in the department of the Gers, on a plate located at the confluence of the Auzoue and Argentans. He answers the usual conditions for this kind of place, since its altitude (135m) enables him to avoid moisture and the floods. Séviac is with a dozen kilometers of the ancient city Elusa (today, Eauze).

Discovered

The site is discovered by chance during the construction of a farm, during the Années 1860. Serious excavations are undertaken before the war of 14-18, then the place falls into the lapse of memory until the end from the Années 1950. In 1959, Paulette Aragon-Launet (° 1913 - † 1992), member of the archaeological company of Gers, reactivates the excavations, while seeking only, a spade with the hand, the “palate buried” of which his/her father, witness of the excavation campaign of Doctor Lannelongue in the years 1911 - 1913, had spoken to him. Helped of her children, it updates already inventoried mosaics, then directs in 1961 an excavation campaign which will make it possible to release the western wing of the villa. Paulette Aragon-Launet founds in 1966 Association for the safeguard of the monuments and sites of Armagnac, which is owner of the site where excavations are organized each summer during thirty years, of 1967 with 1997. In 2003, the property of the site is transferred to the commune from Montreal-of-Gers.

Séviac, classified historic building in 1978, is particularly famous for its mosaic whole of S. One also found there many objects, of which a bronze toe five centimetres length, weighing 390 grams, regarded as an element of a monumental statue. The statue was not found and the object, discovered in 1910, disappeared since.

Part of the found objects with Séviac is exposed to the museum of Montreal-of-Gers. It is the case of a marble head (~400), several fragments of statuettes (a Venus Anadyomène and a Putto in particular) and mosaic with the trees , an exceptional work by its artistic quality and its originality, since it does not take again a usual reason. Various objects (oil lamps, nails, tools, weight of weaving looms, fibules) testify to the daily life of the inhabitants of the villa.

See too

External bond

• seviac-villa.com

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