La place du bois dans l’architecture de la colonie romaine de Vienne. L’exemple du « complexe commercial A-B » à Sainte-Colombe

Abstract

Wood plays a key role in the domestic architecture in Gaul. However this material remains poorly known as it is more often perceived by traces and vacuum in mudbrick or concrete architecture. In 2017 at the “Bourg”, in Saint-Colombe, archaeologists discovered a vast economic complex destroyed by fire nearly 69 AD. The exceptional conservation state permitted to remove 81 carbonized wood samples used for walls, frameworks, hydraulic networks, but also in the fittings of the tabernae. Those elements offer the possibility of analyzing the significance of wood in Colonia Vienna.

Keywords

• Vienna
• Antiquity
• wood
• domestic architecture
• construction materials
• opus craticium