Saturday 23 May, 18:00

May 2026

Saturday 23
- 18:00 - 19:30

Musée des Corbières

Place de la Liberation, 11130 Sigean, France

Aude

Occitanie

Conference

Name: Conference
Start: 2026-05-23T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-23T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Corbières

As part of the exhibition "Navigation on the Sigean pond since the 14th century", Laurence Crosnier will propose a conference to develop his remarks on the subject. This conference is…

Saturday 23 May, 18:00

As part of the exhibition "Navigation on the Sigean pond since the 14th century", Laurence Crosnier will propose a conference to develop his remarks on the subject. This conference will take place in the Annex room of the Town Hall near the Musée des Corbières.

May 2026

Saturday 23
- 18:00 - 19:30

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Musée des Corbières

Place de la Liberation, 11130 Sigean, France

Aude

Occitanie

The museum gives an overview of the heritage of Sigean and its position as a border town with Spain over the centuries. The archaeological collections present various sites of the Corbières from prehistory to the Middle Ages and focus particularly on Pech-maho, oppidum of the Iron Age (6th to 3rd centuries BC), rising 3 km from the city. The monograph of the Pech Maho Site speaks of an oppidum from the Iron Age, a port, a place of trade with the entire Mediterranean world: Greek, Italian, Punic, and Iberian ceramics, including a very rare sphinx shape and lead strips inscribed in Iberian, furniture from the oppidum beforeRoman, collections of Hallstratan vases, Attic (6th, 5th and 4th centuries BC), Campanian (3rd century BC), Gallo-Roman at the ancient lighthouse of Caussagues, including some valuable pieces. Various tools (pruning, saws, nozzles...) and manufactured objects (belt buckles, bracelets, fibulae, buttons...) refer to artisanal activities such as metallurgy and textiles. Greek, Etruscan and Iberian pottery, inscriptions on ceramics and lead slats in Etruscan, Greek and Iberian scripts, testify to his trade with the Mediterranean world then with the Iberian world. Offerings, jewelry, and weapons intentionally broken or bent evoke the funeral rites of that time. The originality and quality of the collections reveal a prosperous and active oppidum at the heart of Mediterranean cultural and commercial exchanges. Ethnographic collections (vines, salt marshes, fishing, hunting...).

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