GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Orange (Vaucluse, 84) |
Subject(s) | Roman city gate |
Author(s) | La Pise, Joseph |
Registrar of the parliament of Orange (1580-1646) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1639 |
Inscription | |
References | La Pise 1639, pp. 34-35 |
Bibliography | Lemerle 2003, pp. 17-20 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 93-95 ; Roumégoux 2009, pp. 268-270 |
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 13th century. It was first described by Thomas Platter |
Transcription
« Les [bains] publics estoyent dans ceste grosse Tour ronde icy representée, à peu prés en la forme que chacun la veüe depuis peu d’années, hors des creneaux de la cime ; & en laquelle elle a demeuré, jusques en l’année mil six cents vingt |