GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
 
Author(s) Saint-Maurice, Alcide de
  Poet and moralist (16..?-17..?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1672
Inscription
References Saint-Maurice 1672, p. 158
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, p. 1145 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 96

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« & l’on voit encore de grandes Pyramides dans les Vignes où estoit sa Maison ».