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Port antique de Marseille

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Niels Christoffersen, Gifford Quinn
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Thomas Landvatter, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 13, 2025 08:46 PM — History
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The Port antique de Marseille is the oldest exposed portion of the city's ancient port, located in the Jardin des Vestiges archaeological park and containing remains from the 6th c. BCE through the 4th c. CE.

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The Port antique de Marseille is in the Jardin des Vestiges, an archaeological park comprising a series of archaeological remains in related to the ancient port of Massalia. Excavation began in 1967, revealing  the ancient quay itself, fortifications (6th c. BCE to 2nd c. BCE), a freshwater basin, funeral terraces (4th c. BCE), and a paved late Roman road (4th c. CE). Discoveries also included a well-preserved boat of the 3rd c. BCE, now in the Marseille History Museum.


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Niels Christoffersen, Gifford Quinn, Jeffrey Becker, Thomas Landvatter, and Tom Elliott, 'Port antique de Marseille: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/888303741> [accessed: 10 March 2025] 

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