GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Saintes (Charente-Maritime, 17)
Subject(s) Triumphal arch
 
Author(s) Zeiller, Martin
  Protestant author (1589-1661)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1661
Inscription
References Zeiller/Mérian 1661, IV, p. 51
Bibliography

Maurin 1978, pp. 71-81 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 33, 101-102 ; Maurin 2007, pp. 304-308

Remarks
Transcription 

« In ponte fornix conspicitur, ex prægrandibus lapidibus sectis & artificio antiquo cum inscriptione Latina. In parva quadam domo juxta fornicem, quae structa est ut sit receptaculum militum praesidiariorum, instar Corps de garde, statua visitur è lapide excisa, quae fornicis istius Auctoris esse creditur. »