The oldest Roman road infrastructure in the Mediterranean South, the Domitian Way connected Spain, under Roman rule since the end of the Punic Wars in 202 BC, to Italy. More than twenty years after the publication of a synthesis study, the exhibition offers an updated assessment of knowledge on this path. She looks back at the history and use of this incredible 780-kilometre structure, built in 118 BC by the Roman consul Cneius Domitius Ahenobarbus and still visible in our landscape today. This exhibition evokes the archaeological sites and excavations through which the Via Domitian has been recognized and studied, but also presents to the public a set of objects testifying to the identity of travelers and activities related to the road: traffic, trade, accommodation, etc.
Divided into three sections, the exhibition first presents the track, the road as a monument, then in a second time its users and the road establishments that mark it, finally in its last part, It testifies to the presence of necropolis by the wayside, as they were found in Ensérune and Nîmes, as for a last trip.
The whole route is based on the presentation of nearly 250 archaeological objects supplemented by texts and illustrations, a model and a tactile table.
Commissariat général
Diane Dusseaux, director of the archaeological site Lattara - musée Henri Prades,
Commissariat général
Lionel Izac, administrator of the oppidum and the archaeological museum of Ensérune, CMN.
Scientific commission
Drac Occitanie, Regional Archaeological Service,
Yuri Bermond, research engineer,
Christophe Pellecuer, heritage curator.
A book from the Duo de la Drac Occitanie collection has also been published on the subject of The Domitian route from the Rhône to the Pyrenees.
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