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.)
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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbourne_Roman_Palace
(just going by what might have a bit of a ring to it, rather than technicalities?)
or something a person with more Latin knowledge than I have (not hard!) says is the Latin translation, since it means "Fish stream."
Saxon things develop and grow out of farms and settlements over centuries, Roman things, at least in Britain, feel like they are more... almost more computer-game-ish: ZAP we shall have a monstrous palace here! and an enormous wall there!
What about making up a name inspired by one of the mosaics?
Something like the House of Fancy Floors? That definitely sounds like it would be what the locals would call it :-D
"They Romans, what with their fancy floors. Tain't Naaaaaatural."
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.