GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Hentzner, Paul
  German jurist (1558-1623)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1598
Inscription
References Hentzner 1617, p. 46
Bibliography

Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 96

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« Conspicitur ibidem extra oppidum Pyramis antiquissima, quam Pilatum, Judææ Procuratorem à Romanis constitutum […] construxisse fama est. »