Moysiacum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 06, 2019 05:56 PM
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History
A place mentioned in passing in the Vita of Saint Desiderius. Modern scholars have identified it with modern Moissac in southern France where there are significant Merovingian and later medieval remains, some of which overlie structures of late Roman date.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246510
44.103562, 1.084339
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 16341 (30 BC - AD 640)
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Moissac located at Moysiacum (unspecified date range)
- Church of Saint Martin at Moissac located at Moysiacum (AD 500 - AD 1453)
- Church of Saint Martin at Moissac located at Moysiacum (unspecified date range)
- Gallo-Roman Structure at Moissac located at Moysiacum (AD 300 - AD 499)
villa
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 25 G1 Moysiacum
The Barrington Atlas seems to make a tentative association between the placename and the remains of a possible Gallo-Roman villa over which was built the later Church of Saint Martin at Moissac, but the basis for this association is not clear.
H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Moysiacum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246510> [accessed: 01 June 2023]
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