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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
This small mirror was made from a sesterce of Emperor Nero (54-68) which was hollowed out for the occasion. Some of these mirrors could correspond to gifts distributed by Nero during the great events of his reign. If the hollowed-out coins are perhaps copies made in Gaul, these objects have a strong symbolic value. Indeed, they are characteristic of the personality of this emperor who was both close to the people and who claimed to have a solar and divine nature.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
This bathtub belonged to the thermal complex of a vast Gallo-Roman villa excavated by Karine Boulanger, between 2008 and 2009 (Inrap). The investigations carried out over an area of 5 hectares allowed us to study in its entirety an agricultural estate occupied between the second half of the 1st century AD and the 3rd century. With a total surface area of 80 m2, these baths were reserved for the master of the house and his guests. Whether private or public, the baths were considered in antiquity as places of leisure and sociability. After the checkroom (apodyterium) and a passage in the cold bath room (frigidarium) then the warm bath (tepidarium), the bather finished his journey with a hot bath (caldarium) in one of the two bathtubs placed on either side of the room. Its brickwork rested on a floor heated by the ground (hypocaust). Of a shape very close to our modern bathtubs, it was fed by a pipe which was recovered and a conduit made it possible to drain the basin directly on the floor of the room. Decorative rocks adorned its walls as well as the lower parts of the room's walls. That of the bathtub was decorated with an exceptional mosaic decorated with nymphs pulled by sea horses.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Spatula for blushes, perhaps with a smaller crucible or flat disc at the other end to be used as an ear pick, or to crush and mix ointments or makeup.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
The fibula is in the shape of a hare at rest, facing right. Its ears, nose, mouth and folded tail are detailed.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Ring with bezel and gold leaf border and oval intaglio, in dark blue pâte de verre. It is incised with a decoration probably figured but difficult to read because of the wear of the bezel.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Small bell originally attached to the necks of sheep or goats.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Small bell originally attached to the necks of sheep or goats.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Small bell originally attached to the necks of sheep or goats.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Small bell originally attached to the necks of sheep or goats.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Attached to the end of a stick, this spike could be used to prod cattle.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Set of knives and cleavers for various uses, including butchery cutting. They are fitted with a tang (rod) or a socket (cylinder).
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Set of knives and cleavers for various uses, including butchery cutting. They are fitted with a tang (rod) or a socket (cylinder).
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Set of knives and cleavers for various uses, including butchery cutting. They are fitted with a tang (rod) or a socket (cylinder).
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Set of knives and cleavers for various uses, including butchery cutting. They are fitted with a tang (rod) or a socket (cylinder).
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Set of knives and cleavers for various uses, including butchery cutting. They are fitted with a tang (rod) or a socket (cylinder).
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
A ring originally attached to a hitch to pass the reins.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Heavy and pointed tool used to perforate leather.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Small shovels with twisted handles, used to stir the embers.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Small shovels with twisted handles, used to stir the embers.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Scissors used to shear the wool of sheep.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Scissors used to shear the wool of sheep.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
Gouge type tool with a socket that still contains wood fibers.
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Gallo-Roman [- 50 / 476]
The changing rooms of the thermal baths of the villa of Damblain (Vosges) received a decoration of painted plaster very neat whose linear patterns in bright colors stand out on a white background. This decoration presents a linear composition in orthogonal network, formed on the width of two yellow octagons. The study of these fragments has allowed us to observe in some cases the use of a metal stylus to trace the decoration, and in particular the circles made with a compass.
