GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s)	Pyramid

Author(s)	Platter, Félix
	Physician from Basel, older brother of Thomas Platter (1536-1614)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1552
Inscription
References	Platter A λ III, f. 29= Lötscher 1976, p. 139
Bibliography	Kieffer 1892 ; Lötscher 1976 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 85-86, 96
Remarks	The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus

Transcription « Morndes den 24 octobris giengen wir fir die statt hinus, besachen ein alten spitzigen turn, den die Römer vor zeiten gebuwen hatten; ist ein piramis, gefiert und gar oben auß zugespitzt, inwendig hol, ein firnemme antiquitet. » = “On the morning of the 24th October, we went out of the town to visit an old pointed tower that the Romans built in times past. It is a pyramid, has four sides, a very pointed top, is hollow inside and is of a fine old age.”