GALLIA ROMANA
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Ville | Grenoble (Isère, 38) |
Subject(s) | Roman city gates |
Author(s) | Le Lièvre, Jean |
Canon, sacristan and abbot of Saint-Ferréol at Vienne (15..?-16..?) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1623 |
Inscription | |
References | Le Lièvre 1623, pp. 18-19 |
Bibliography | Chatel 1990, pp. 17-24 ; Michel 1999, pp. 53-54, 110-115 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 84 |
Remarks | The two city gates constructed by Diocletian and Maximian carried identical inscriptions, with the exception of the names of the gates, indicated at the end, which corresponded with the the two emperors' agnomens: 'Jovia' (Jupiter) was Diocletian's agnomen, 'Herculea' (Hercules) was Maximian's: DN IMP CAES CAIVS AVREL VALERIVS DIOCLETIANVS P F INVICTVS AVGVSTVS ET IMP CAESAR MARCVS AVREL VALERIVS MAXIMIANVS PIVS FELIX INVICTVS AVG MVRIS CVLARONENSIBVS CVM INTERIORIBVS AEDIFICIIS PROVIDENTIA SVA INSTITVTIS ADQVE PERFECTIS PORTAM VIENNENSEM HERCVLEAM VOCARI IVSSERVNT (CIL, XII, n° 2229) = “Our masters the Emperor Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, pious, lucky, invincible august, and the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Maximianus, pious, lucky, invincible, august, thanks to whose foresight the walls of Cularo and the buildings within them were constructed, ordained that the Roman gate should be called 'Herculea'”. The 'Porte Traine' was destroyed in 1591; the 'Porte Viennoise' was demolished in the early 19th century (1802-1810) |
Transcription
« Moins se trouvent à present les portes de Vienne, ou furent jadis inscripts ces mots referez par Pomponius Lætus en ses histoires Romaines, au Chapitre de la Deesse Nemesis, sur le discours de l’Empire de Diocletian. [19] D. D. N. N. IMP. CÆS. C. AVREL. VALERIVS DIOCLET. P. P. INVICT. AVG. MVRIS CVLARONENSIBVS ÆDIFICIIS PROVIDENTIA SVA INSTITVIT.
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