GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Vienne (Isère, 38) |
Subject(s) | Pyramid |
Author(s) | Du Bois, Jean |
Celestine priest (15..?-1626) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1605 |
Inscription | |
References | Du Bois 1605, p. 8 |
Bibliography | Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 66, 96 |
Remarks | The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus |
Transcription
« Extra illam portam Avenionensem in vineto, visitur Obeliscus olim intra urbem positus, in cujus vertice qui nunc truncatus spectatur : urna fuisse dicitur, in qua conditi erant cineres Venerii Affricani (sic), qui profugus à patria cum illic consedisset, Urbem Viennam condidit »… |