GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre known as the “Palais Gallien”
 
Author(s) Quadt, Matthias
  German geographer and engraver (1557/58-1613)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1603
Inscription
References Quadt 1603, p. 51
Bibliography Étienne 1962, pp. 191-195 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 104-105
Remarks

This passage is cited in the work traditionally attributed to C. Ens (1609, p. 65)

Transcription 

« Palatium Galerne (sic) dicitur, est extra civitatem ; ejus muri, sunt materić, cujus & veteris seu primi, 370 pedes longum est, 230 largum ; Amphitheatrum fuisse ovali forma constructum nemini dubium esse debet. »