Marcadal, Yves <br/><br/>
Architectural Members in the Hellenistic Tradition in the Oppidum of “Caisses de Jean-Jean” 

 -  2011.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> On the south edge of the Alpilles stands the archaeological site of the "Caisses de Jean-Jean." The oppidum, and the archaeological area related to it below, were occupied several times during their long history (from the seventh century BC to the end of the third century AD). Fernand Benoit's excavations, in the ‘30s and those running from 1980 have provided many architectural elements of the Hellenistic style (threshold with narrow rebate and lateral mortises, sawn roof-slabs in opus pavonaceum, corona stones, a Tuscan pilaster tent . . . ). Hewn in a soft limestone quarried elsewhere, these elements were reused in walls of hard limestone blocks, a coarse masonry bound with clay soil. They came from several buildings of the second half of the first century BC. The study of these elements allows us to deduce that a small monumental center, resembling, technically speaking, the Glanum oppidum on the north slope of the Alpilles, had been erected in this area between the end of the second century and the beginning of the first century BC.