Belbeze-en-Comminges

BELBÈZE-EN-COMMINGES Haute-Garonne, France.

The quarries of Belbèeze were exploited in Roman times and, notably, furnished the small stone ashlar which revetted the Roman rampart of Toulouse. Above the quarries, on the summit of Pédegas-d'en-Haut, G. Manière has found and excavated a hilltop sanctuary which was also a fountain-head shrine. The cult seems to have lasted from the 1st to the 4th c. A.D.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

G. Manière, “De l'antiquité gallo-romaine à nos jours: les carrières souterraines de Belbèzeen Comminges . . . ,” Rev. de Comminges 78 (1965) 57-70; id., “Un nouveau temple gallo-romain à Belbèze-en-Comminges (Haute-Garonne): découverte de petits vases à offrandes,” Ogam 18 (1966) 299-301; “Un nouveau sanctuaire gallo-romain: le temple de Belbè-en-Comminges,” Celticum 16 (1967) 65-126 & pls. 26-43.

M. LABROUSSE