GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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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. » |