GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pont de Trajan
 
Author(s) Du Bois, Jean
  Celestine priest (15..?-1626)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1605
Inscription
References Du Bois 1605, p. 21
Bibliography

Leblanc 1880, pp. 89-97 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 124-125 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 96-97

Remarks

The only one of the three Roman bridges which subsisted was swept away by a flood in 1651

Transcription 

« Fama etiam est, Gracum Tyberium […] Pontem super Rhodanum construxisse, ac etiam ex utroque pontis limite arcem munitam collocasse, quarum ne vestigia quidam extant. »