GALLIA ROMANA
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Ville | Grenoble (Isère, 38) |
Subject(s) | Porte Traine |
Author(s) | Gölnitz, Abraham |
Geographer and cartographer from Danzig (15.. ?–16.. ?) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1631 |
Inscription | |
References | Gölnitz 1631, p. 422 |
Bibliography | Macé 1858 ; Chatel 1990, pp. 17-24 ; Michel 1999, p. 54 n° 16, 110-115 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 34-35, 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 ROMANAM IOVIAM 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 'Jovium'.” The gate was destroyed in 1591 |
Transcription
« Altera dicta est Romana Jovia. Diocletiano dedicata, qui Jovi se æquiparare rebus suis gestis non erubuit, talis ejus inscriptio :
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