GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Orange (Vaucluse, 84)
Subject(s)	Roman city gate

Author(s)	Platter, Thomas II
	Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1597
Inscription
References	Platter A λ V, f. 158= Keiser 1968, p. 205
Bibliography	Keiser 1968 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 17-20 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 28-31, 95
Remarks	The round tower was one of the gates of the Roman city walls which had been reconverted into a small fort in the style of a triumphal arch and then ruined in the 13^th century. It was first described by Platter, well before La Pise

Transcription « Vor einem anderen thor hab ich auch noch ein triumph bogen oder thurn, der aber in die ründe gebauwen, gehesen, ist nichts sonderlichs doran zemerken. Durch dise thürn oder bogen haben die alten Römer pfleget, nach erhaltenem sig mitt großem triumph unndt gepräng einzureiten unndt solche gebeüw zu einer ewigen gedechtnuß aufzurichten. » = “Before another gate, I saw yet another triumphal arch or tower, round in shape this time, about which I have nothing particular to say. Each time the ancient Romans won an important battle, they celebrated their triumph by parading on horseback, with much magnificence, through these arches or towers, which they erected as memorials.”