Mantoche

MANTOCHE Haute-Saône, France.

A site on the right bank of the Saône near two fords. Its importance as a crossing place from prehistoric times on is attested by finds made whenever the river is dredged. Tumuli have yielded four 6th c. Greek amphorae. From the Roman era there is a large villa between the canal and the Saône, only partially excavated, where a mosaic with marine motif was found; a factory which produced tiles and ordinary pottery; a cemetery in which a sarcophagus was found with a lid bearing a bust of the deceased in the center and tragic masks at the corners.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Gasser, Bulletin de la Société Grayloise d'Emulation (1898) 89-93; (1900) 236-45; (1901) 165-283; (1904) 81-131; F. Villard, La céramique grecque de Marseille (1960) 129, no. 5; L. Lerat, “Informations,” Gallia 20 (1962) 540-43; H. Stern, Recueil général des mosaïques de la Gaule romaine I, 3 (1960) no. 363.

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