GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s)	Roman city walls

Author(s)	Platter, Thomas II
	Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1597
Inscription
References	Platter A λ V, f. 153= Keiser 1968, p. 200
Bibliography	Keiser 1968 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 30, 84 ; Mocci/Nin 2006, p. 413
Remarks	Fragments of the Roman city walls, including their towers, were still visible in the 16^th century. See Belleforest 1575, p. 344 (town plan)

Transcription « Es sinndt auch ettliche veste wäll » = “There are also a few parts of the [city] walls.”