Roquepertuse

Roquepertuse. The pillars of the portico, with cavities designed for receiving skulls. III-II B.C. Musée d'archéologie méditerranéenne in Marseille.

Acropolis Roquepertuse is an ancient Celtic religious center. It is located near the city of Velaux, north of Marseille 16 miles west of Aix-en-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southern France.[1] The site was first recorded in the Bouches-du-Rhône civil statistics in 1824 when a partially buried statue of a cross-legged warrior was discovered in the garden of the parish priest.[2] The structure was destroyed by the Romans in 124 BC and re-discovered in 1860 when a partially uncovered statue was fully excavated.[3] Most of the excavations were done in 1923 by Henri de Gérin-Ricard.[3]

  1. ^ Morestin, H. (1976). Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William L.; McAllister, Marian Holland; MacDonald, Richard; Holland, Marian (eds.). The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 959. ISBN 9780691035420.
  2. ^ Celtic Culture: Celtomania-Fulup, Marc'harid. Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, John T. Koch. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. 2006. p. 1541. ISBN 978-1-85109-440-0.
  3. ^ a b Lescure, Brigitte; Gantes, Lucien-François (1991). "Nouvelle approche des collections de Roquepertuse: l'étude du mobilier ancien (fouilles Henri de Gérin-Ricard)" [A New Approach to the Roquepertuse Collections: Study the Ancient Furnishings (Excavations of Henri de Gérin-Ricard)]. Documents d'archéologie méridionale (in French). 14 (14): 9–18. doi:10.3406/dam.1991.1025. Retrieved 23 July 2023.