Le monument romain de panissars (trophees de pompee?) et le franchissement pyreneen de la voie domitienne

The existence of the roman monument of panissars is closely linked to the crossing of the domitian way at the point where it penetrates the pyrenees. The ground surveys carried out between le boulou and la jonquera (spain) have enabled us to establish that the way used to branch out into a real network of parallel thorough fares (the valley of rom, the freixe valley, and the ridgeway of the cluse haute) which were all used at some time or other in ancient times. The main branch is that of the freixe valley leading to the panissars pass, that a recent discovery of an important republican monument and of of constantine's milestones, identifies in the summun pyrenaeum of the ancient texts. The monument which has been discovered at panissars would appear to date from the end of the republic but it would also seen to be later than the creation of the domitian way. Were these trophies erected by pompey at the end of the spanish war (-71) as several of the topographic, historic and historiographic details would lead us to think? the question or the monument remains: the most attactive hypothesis is that of the turret-shape trophey built just above the way.