GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Montano, Giovanni Battista
  Italian architect (1534-1621)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date 15..?
Inscription
References London, Sir John Soane’s Museum, vol. 123, f. 20
Bibliography

Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Fairbain 1998, II, p. 394, n° 1225 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 96

Remarks

The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus

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