GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Metz (Moselle, 57)
Subject(s) Thermae
  (basin)
Author(s) Anonymous engraver, after an original drawing by Claude Chastillon
 
Resource type Woodcut, 17 x 38,2 cm.
Date 1614
Inscription

« GRANDES MARQVES DE LA CVRIOSITE DES ANCIENS SIECLES QVI CE VOIENT ENCORT A PRESENT TANT DEDANS QVE DEHORS LA VILLE DE METZ. 1614 » / « PAR C. CHASTILON » (sic)

References Chastillon 1641, ed. cit. 1655, [pl. 85]
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 ; Weigert 1951, pp. 307-381 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 77-78, 124-125 ; Flotté 2005, p. 42

Remarks

The engraving shows the tank of the northern baths, conserved today in the Cathedral of Metz

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