Cazeres

CAZÈRES Haute-Garonne, France.

The district of Saint-Cizy corresponds to the ancient center of Aquae Siccae, which was located on the Roman road from Toulouse to Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges and Dax. Recent excavations uncovered a funerary pit of Flavian date, 11.5 m deep and almost 150 cubic m in volume; a necropolis of the Late Empire, first pagan, then Christian; and, in 1971, a baptistery, no doubt adjacent to a Christian basilica.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

G. Manière, “L'appelation antique du vicus de Saint-Cizy dans la commune de Cazères: Aquae Siccae ou Aquis Siccis,” Rev. de Comminges 75 (1962) 161-65; id., “La voie romaine dans la commune de Cazères,” ibid. 77 (1964) 1-6; id., “Un puits funéraire de la fin du Iersiècle aux Aquae Siccae (Cazères, Haute-Garonne),” Gallia 24 (1966) 103-59; id., “La nécropole de basse époque du Bantayré,” Pallas 13 (1966) 175-91.

M. LABROUSSE