Abstract
In 2016 and 2017, two preventive archaeological excavations at Sainte-Colombe (69) revealed the remains of rich peristyle houses belonging to the suburbium of the Roman colony of Vienne. Numerous fragments of architectural decorations have been extracted, including pieces of corinthian capitals, which are rarely found in a context of Gallo-Roman housing. Reconstructing and stylistically analyzing these capitals result in dates between the Flavian period and the end of the 2nd century AD and thus confirm that Sainte-Colombe houses were decorated through several phases. From a broader point of view, these few pieces raise some interesting questions about using corinthian order into gallo-roman peristyles and the significance of such a choice of ornamentation for proprietaries.
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