GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Grenoble (Isère, 38) |
| Subject(s) | Porte Viennoise |
| Author(s) | Duchesne, André |
| Geographer and king's historiographer (1584-1640) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1609 |
| Inscription | |
| References | Duchesne 1609, ed. cit. 1614, IV, pp. 805-806 |
| Bibliography | DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 408-409 ; Deschamps-Juif 1963 ; Chatel 1990, pp. 17-24 ; Michel 1999, p. 53 n° 15, 110-115 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 70, 84 |
| Remarks | Duchesne drew on Belleforest. 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'”. |
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Transcription
« L’autre qui a son issuë vers Vienne & son regard vers le Septentrion fut appelée Herculea en l’honneur de Maximian qui se disoit marcher de pair avec Hercule, & recommandee aussi par ceste inscription.
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