GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Metz (Moselle, 57)
Subject(s) ‘Maison Carrée’
 
Author(s) Anonymous engraver, after an original drawing by Claude Chastillon
 
Resource type Woodcut, 26,5 x 36,5 cm.
Date 1614
Inscription

« BELLE (sic) MARQVES DANTIQVITE ETANS DANS LEVESCHE D[V] PALLAI » (2)

References Chastillon 1641, ed. cit. 1655, [pl. 102]
Bibliography

Dumoulin 1930 ; Weigert 1951, pp. 307-381 ; Herme-Renault 1981, pp. 141-163 ; Pastoureau/Lestringant 1984, p. 104 ; Ravaux 1998; Buisseret 2000, pp. 69-73 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 77-78, 124-125 ; Flotté 2005, pp. 75-76

Remarks

The engraving shows the remains of a building situated on the forum (probably a basilica) which was destroyed in the 19th century

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