Fishbourne Roman Palace

[bunn]

Clearly the original residents did not call it that.   I'm guessing it doesn't have a documented original name, or at least I can't find one from hasty rummaging.

If you think it has a Latin name that I've missed, what's it called?   If you think it doesn't have a (known) Latin name, what might be a good name for someone in 197AD to use for it?

(The word Fishbourne sounds and looks Saxon. So It Will Not Do. It is Just Wrong. I know that Chichester is the rather magnificent Noviomagus Regnensium, but I need a separate name for the Palace.)

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Something based on the name of one of the owners?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbourne_Roman_Palace

[hhimring]

Then Domus Sallustia, maybe?
(just going by what might have a bit of a ring to it, rather than technicalities?)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I like that, it does have a ring to it!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Yes, that sounds like a probable way to name it. And I think I'm right in saying that after Domitian died everyone said what a disaster he was and his memory was supposed to be forgotten, so if the place was named after Sallustius Lucullus, it could still be called that a century later, even though Domitian had Sallustius executed...

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

That sounds perfectly sensible to me. On the same lines, I was going to suggest calling it Cogidubnus' Palace, (whether in English or if you prefer as Domus Cogidubna.) Though iirc, Sallustius has some physical evidence (something with his name on?), whereas Cogidubnus is just a theory albeit an often accepted one for main/first owner. Perhaps more famous, though?