GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Du Choul, Guillaume
  Humanist and antiquarian from Lyon (c. 1496-1560)
Resource type Manuscript
Date 1538
Inscription
References Du Choul 212, f. 54v°
Bibliography

Varille 1923, pp. 453-469 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 59-60, 96

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« les plus nobles faisoient piramides comme celle qui se voit encores entiere aupres de la cite de vienne en daulphine. »