Fishbourne Roman Palace
Feb. 1st, 2016 08:20 pmClearly 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.)
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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Date: 2016-02-15 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-02-15 09:05 am (UTC)At that point, perhaps people locally were less familiar with wallpaintings, but the name would still work at the end of the second century.
I wondered also about House of Fountains, as the gardens had some rather good ones apparently, which can't have been run of the mill in Britain.