Balnéaire et cuisine. Une unité domestique sur une villa de la basse vallée de l'Arc : la Vautubière à Coudoux (Bouches-du-Rhône)

Abstract

Researches carried out in a villa in La Vautubière at Coudoux (Bouches-du-Rhône) are in the continuity of diggings already started on the site of the Etang de Berre. These works allowed to bring to light baths combining two heated rooms. The heating room was later transformed into a kitchen, with a baking oven, working benches and a small hearth for cooking. Though the site had been occupied since the end of the first century B.C. until the seventh century A.D. the different stages of the building probably space out over the second half of the first century until the third century A.D. and were partially used again later (3rd or 5th century A.D. ?).