GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Estienne, Charles
  Parisian polygraph (1504-1564)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1552
Inscription
References Estienne 1552, ed. cit. 1553, p. 171
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 488-490 ; Bonnerot 1935 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lestringant 1980, pp. 424-435 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 68, 96

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« Voy les grandes pyramides dans les vignes, ou lon dict avoir esté le logis de Pilate. »