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) Duchesne, André
  Geographer and king's historiographer (1584-1640)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1609
Inscription
References Duchesne 1609, ed. cit. 1614, p. 811
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 408-409 ; Leblanc 1880, pp. 89-97 ; Deschamps-Juif 1963 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 124-125 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 70, 96-97

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« Tiberius Gracchus passant en Gaule la fortifia d’un pont environ l’an cinq cens septante & six de la fondation de Rome, & les deux bouts du pont de deux Chasteaux pour la defense & seureté du passage. »