Note sur cinq éléments de marbre provenant de Carthage conservés au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Langres (Haute-Marne)

Abstract

The Langres Museum of Art and History holds five fragments of marble from Carthage (four architectural fragments and one sculpture), which entered the museum’s collections in 1845, along with a fragment of abacus from Magnesia on the Meander. A study of the registers of deliberations of the Société d’histoire et d’archéologie allows us to trace the history of the fragments, which were taken from the ruins of Carthage by French naval officers during the second quarter of the 19th century. The contexts of discovery are not known precisely, but the examination of the architectural fragments, which date from the Antonine period, and the mention of a coastal site lead to the attribution of several fragments to the Baths of Antoninus. No hypothesis of provenance can be put forward for the sculpture, which perhaps represents Saturn.

Keywords

• Carthago
• Antonine baths
• Antonine period
• Magnesia on the Meander
• Artemis Leukophryene
• corniche