GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Besançon (Doubs, 25)
Subject(s) Temple of Diana
 
Author(s) Chifflet, Jean-Jacques
  Physician and antiquarian (1588-1660)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1618
Inscription
References Chifflet 1618, I, pp. 82-83
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, p. 279 ; Joan 2003, pp. 185-188 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 66, 122-123

Remarks
Transcription 

« In nostro Dianæ colle, gentium superstitionibus abolitis post susceptam Christi fidem, Leontius in ordine Bisontinorum Præsulum decimus quartus Cœnobium Monialium exstruxit, quæ perpetuò inibi virginitatem colerent. Adhuc supersunt vestigia [83] ædis, & area monasterii visitur, ubi nunc solida, & antiqua turris, quam vulgo Dianæ vocant. »