GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Lyon (Rhône, 69)
Subject(s) Aqueduct of the Gier
 
Author(s) Bellièvre, Claude de
  Magistrate and antiquarian from Lyon (1487-1557)
Resource type Manuscript
Date Before 1557
Inscription
References Bellièvre 257, f. 79
Bibliography

Monfalcon 1846-1 ; Burdy 2002, pp. 39-64 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 58-59, 111 ; Le Mer/Chomer 2007, pp. 207-209

Remarks

Bellièvre describes here the reservoir of the Gier Aqueduct, known as 'Grotte Berelle'

Transcription 

« Extat in vineto Lugduni, sur la recluserie de la magdeleyne, spaciosa quædam cavea vetus, hanc vulgus appellat, crotte berelle, quam denominationem puto esse antiquam, crotta enim, Itala lingua cavea est, et berelle a bibendo, quasi cavea ad quam conveniebant bibere volentes, taverne. »