This thesis focuses on metallic objects in the city of Arverne and its northern borders in Roman times. The aim of this work is to study the metallic artifects found in fourteen sites spread across the city of Arverne, in order to understand the practices of consumption and circulation of metallic objects in Roman times (1st - 4th century AD. AD). The method used resorts to a systematization of the approach which is based on the one hand on statistical (EPPM serialograph) and quantification (NR, NMI, NOA) tools; on the other hand on functional descriptors (standardization of descriptive vocabulary, functional categorization system). The implementation of these methodological tools aims to highlight the place occupied by metal on each of the...