Musée Saint-Raymond
Saint-Raymond Museum
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 Location within Toulouse
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| Coordinates | 43°36′28″N 1°26′28″E / 43.607867°N 1.441125°E |
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| Type | Art museum, Archeological museum, Historic site |
| Curator | Evelyne Ugaglia |
| Website | saintRaymond.toulouse.fr |
The Musée Saint-Raymond (in English, Saint-Raymond museum) established in 1891, is a museum located in Toulouse, France, specializing in antiquities.
Source: www.data.gouv.fr
The early Christian necropolis was discovered in the excavation under the museum between 1994 and 1996 and contains a lime-kiln, about a hundred sepulchres and severals inscriptions.
Lime-kiln
Lime-kiln
Latin epitaph
The first floor of the museum contains finds from the Chiragan villa in Martres-Tolosane, 60 km south-west of Toulouse. The villa was populated from the first to the fourth century.
Roman bust of an armoured man
Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar
Minerva
Athena-Minerva
The collection of Roman emperors busts in the second largest in France, after the one of the Louvre. These sculptures were discovered as early as 1826 and represent Roman emperors, two of their wives and nowadays unknown people of power.
Overview of the gallery
Bust of Augustus
Trajan bust, Opferbildtypus
Unknown woman. Sculpture made between 125 and 135 AD
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