GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Orange (Vaucluse, 84) |
Subject(s) | Roman city gate |
Author(s) | Baugin, Jean ? |
Engraver (fl. 1639-1660) | |
Resource type | Copper engraving |
Date | 1639 |
Inscription | « La Maisanou » / « Tour rhonde autrementdït] Les Thermes Baings antics d’Orange » / « Pag. 34. » |
References | La Pise 1639, image opposite page 34 |
Bibliography | Lemerle 2003, pp. 17-20 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 93-94 ; Roumégoux 2009, pp. 181-183 |
Remarks | The round tower supposed to have housed the baths was probably one of the gates of the Roman city walls which had been converted into a small fort in the style of a triumphal arch and then ruined in the 13th century |
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