GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Duchesne, André
  Geographer and king's historiographer (1584-1640)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1609
Inscription
References Duchesne 1609, ed. cit. 1614, p. 811
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 408-409 ; Deschamps-Juif 1963 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 70, 96

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« comme aussi se voient encore de grandes pyramides dans des vignes où estoit son logis [logis de Pilate] »…