Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges d'un ensemble monumental gallo-romain à vocation cultuelle
Sceaux-du-Gâtinais, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Ensemble monumental gallo-romain à vocation cultuelle (vestiges) (cad. ZP 119, 120) : classement par arrêté du 9 décembre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/12/09 : classé MH
- Type
- site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sceaux-du-Gâtinais
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.11543, 2.62313
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099018
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1782 map "8 Orleans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ensemble monumental cultuel du Haut-Empire romain, présentant une grande place entourée de boutiques, avec captage construit au centre. Il s'inserre dans un vaste complexe antique avec temple, thermes, théâtre, agglomération, correspondant à la ville d'eau gallo-romaine d'Aquis Segestae.
English translation
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History
Monumental religious complex from the High Roman Empire, presenting a large square surrounded by shops, with a constructed water source at the centre. It is part of a vast ancient complex with temple, baths, theatre, settlement, corresponding to the Gallo-Roman spa town of Aquis Segestae.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.