GALLIA ROMANA

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

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

Author(s)	Nostredame, Michel de, called Nostradamus
	Physician (1503-1566)
Resource type	Printed book
Date	1555
Inscription
References	Nostredame 1555, IV, 27
Bibliography	DLF XVI^e siècle, pp. 888-889 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Brind’Amour 1996, pp. 499-504 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 47, 96
Remarks	Paraphrased, the quatrain reads as follows: 'At Salon, Saint-Paul de Mausole and Tarascon, at the place where the Arch of Sextus is found and there where the monument in the shape of a pyramid still stands , they will come to deliver the Prince of Denmark: shameful ransom at the Temple of Artemide ' (Brind’Amour 1996, p. 503). The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus

Transcription « Salon, Mansol, Tarascon, de SEX. L’arc, Où est debout encor la piramide, Viendront livrer le prince Dannemarc : Rachat honni au temple d’Artemide. »