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Diodurum is an important Gallo-Roman city of the City of Carnutes. It is on the territory of the current municipality of Jouars-Pontchartrain (Yvelines). It is considered the most important Gallo-Roman administrative and commercial site in Île-de-France.

The ancient locality of Diodurum is only mentioned in the Antonin route [ first ] Under the form Dioduro , late Latin form from the Gauls star- > part- “Divine”, associated with Duro Originally “door”, then “enclosure market, place, forum”, finally “close city, bourg” [ 2 ] . He gave the toponym Jouars by Romance phonetic evolution.

The origins of the Gallo-Roman city of Diodurum would go back to I is century of. J.-C. It was inhabited until WE It is century.

Diodurum was at a strategic crossroads between several transport routes, especially on the way from Lutèce to Durocasses (Dreux), as well as Caesomagus (Beauvais) at Autricum (Chartres) and Cenabum (Orleans). The site later became at the XII It is century, a Cistercian farm called Ferme d’Ithe [ 3 ] , which depended on the Cistercian Abbey Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay, located about twenty kilometers to the south.

Mentioned from the XVIII It is century, the site of Diodurum was known in the 1950s, but was only truly searched at the time of the diversion of the national road 12.

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Excavations linked to the work of the RN 12 are at the origin of the creation of the Association for the Protection of the Archaeological Site of Diodurum (APSAD) [ 4 ] . Its objective is to make an open -air museum on the site [ 5 ] .

The archaeological excavations carried out between 1994 and 1998, under preventive archeology made it possible to uncover many vestiges:

  • necropolises,
  • temples, sanctuaries,
  • habitats,
  • ruins of an ancient theater….

Since 2003, the site has been the subject of an archaeological research program on the Cistercian building and on a district of the ancient ancient city [ 6 ] .

  1. ↑ Antonin route 384, 6. Itinerary Antoninus Augustus and Burdigalense, ed. Otto Cuntz, Leipzig, 1929 (Itineraria Romana, 1); Repr. Stuttgart, 1990 (ISBN  3-519-04273-8 ) .
  2. ↑ Xavier Delamarre, Dictionary of the Gallic language, Editions Errance 2003, p. 142 and 156.
  3. ↑ Eat just Ayte , or Spelling , which would be a derivative of Celtic atteg meaning “dependence, barracks”, Paris and Ile -de -France – Volume 49 – page 135.
  4. ↑ APSADIODURUM (Association for the Promotion of the Archaeological Site of Diodurum), ‘ APSADIODURUM and its actions within the Ferme d’Ithe » , on youtube.com , (consulted the ) .
  5. ↑ Article by Anne Le Lagadec, ” Diodurum, under the Cistercian cobblestones, “the city of the gods” », The echo of park n ° 55 , ( read online [PDF] ) .
  6. ↑ The papyrus of knowledge, ‘ Diodurum and ITHE Farm » , on youtube.com , (consulted the ) .

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • Yvan Barat, Bruno Dufay, Ingrid Renault, Archaeological map of Gaul . Flight. 78. Les Yvelines, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 2007, (ISBN  978-2-87754-189-3 )
  • Olivier Blin, “Diodurum: the ancient agglomeration of Jouars-Pontchartrain, in the Yvelines”, in Archaeological France: twenty years of developments and discoveries , Paris, 2004, p. 146-149
  • P. Brun, C. Marcigny, J. Vanmoerkerke (dir.), “Jouars-Pontchartrain (Yvelines). Spatial extension and depth of time: a question of scale ”, in An archeology of local networks. What surfaces to study for what representativeness? Proceedings of the Round Table of 14 and in Châlons-en-Champagne, review The news of archeology , n O  104-105, Paris, 2006

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