Caesaromagus (Beauvais)
Caesaromagus is the ancient name of today's city of Beauvais in the Oise department , which was founded as a Roman city in Gaul . The city was the capital of the Civitas of Bellovaci . For a long time it was assumed that Caesaromagus emerged from the city of Bratuspantium , which is mentioned in Gaius Iulius Caesar's Commentarii de bello Gallico as a place of retreat for the Bellovacians. However, the city seems to have been a Roman re-establishment under Augustus . So far no remains of a Celtic predecessor settlement have been found and no pre-Roman fortifications have been found.
The city is named on the tabula Peutingeriana .
Caesaromagus had streets that crossed at right angles. From this urban development there was a bath from the 2nd century, residential buildings of wealthy citizens (with hypocausts ) and a temple in the north. A rounded building structure from the end of the 2nd or the beginning of the 3rd century, the function of which is uncertain, perhaps belonged to a public building. There was an extensive necropolis outside the city .
In the second half of the 3rd century the city was walled after a sack. A bishop is already recorded for this time . 320 Emperor Constantine is said to have visited the city.
literature
- Pierre Leman: Caesaromagus (Beauvais) Oise, France . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 53 ″ N , 2 ° 5 ′ 3 ″ E