Les salles de réception triconques dans l’architecture domestique de l’Antiquité tardive en Occident

Abstract

The eighteen reception rooms with three apses which are known to us today in the western provinces of the Roman empire (in Africa, Gaul and Spain), dating from the fourth and fifth centuries AD, are both town dwellings and country villas. The interior organisation of these rooms and their dimensions vary considerably : some are so small that it is difficult to believe that they could have been used as dining rooms. The decorative refinement of some of the apse pavements seems to confirm that, on certain occasions, they could be free of all furniture. These rooms should be interpreted then as multi-purpose reception halls, their complex architectural form essentially serving to mark the high social status of the owner.

Late Roman «villae» and the «rus»: Interrogating Rural Interdependencies in the Ebro River Valley (Navarra, Spain)

“…See Stirling, 2005, andBeckmann, 2022. 4 For discussion see Lavin, 1962;Ellis, 1988 andand Morvillez, 1995. 5 Thébert, 1985, and Ellis, 1988 For early comments in this vein see also Lavin, 1962, andL'Orange, 1965.…”