GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Périgueux (Dordogne, 24)
Subject(s) Town
  View of the town
Author(s) Anonymous engraver (15..?-15..?)
 
Resource type Woodcut
Date 1575
Inscription « Le vray Pourtraict de la ville de Perigueux. »
References Belleforest 1575, I, 1, pp. 201-202
Bibliography Girardy-Caillat 1996, pp. 127-154 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 68-69, 106
Remarks

The ancient ramparts, the amphitheatre and the Roman gateway can all be seen on the engraving

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