GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15^th-17^th centuries)

Ville	Saint-Chamas (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s)	Pont Flavien

Author(s)	Zinzerling, Just
	Dutch scholar (1590-1618)
Resource type	Printed book
Date	1616
Inscription
References	Zinzerling 1616, pp. 234-235
Bibliography	Bernard 1859, pp. 1-14 ; Mesqui 1981, p. 170 ; Gateau 1996, pp. 281-282 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32-33, 88
Remarks	The 'Pont Flavien' (1^st century) comprises a single semicircular arch constructed with large stone blocks. Triumphal arches stand at each entrance. The inscription is slightly inexact, see (CIL, XII, n° 647)

Transcription « Hoc egressus [235] transibis pontem, cui utrinque arcus inædificatur, ipsique inscriptum : CEDONIVS C. F. FLAVIVS FLAMEN ROMAE ET AVGVSTI TESTAMENTO FIERI IVSSIT ARBITRATV CEDONEI VENAE ET ATTEI RVFI. » = “On leaving, you cross a bridge, at each end of which stands an arch bearing the following inscription: CEDONIVS C. F. FLAVIVS FLAMEN ROMAE ET AVGVSTI TESTAMENTO FIERI IVSSIT ARBITRATV CEDONEI VENAE ET ATTEI RVFI.”