GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Aix-les-Bains (Savoie, 73)
Subject(s) Thermae
 
Author(s) Aubery, Jean
  Physician and writer (1569-after 1622)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1604
Inscription
References Aubery 1604, ff. 23v°-24
Bibliography

Biographie française, IV, pp. 106-107; Bonnard 1908, pp. 311-316; Rémy/Ballet/Ferber 1996, pp. 105-106; Lemerle 2005, p. 67

Remarks

Recent archaeological publications (Rémy/Ballet/Ferber 1996) make no mention of Aubery's account of the antiquities of Aix, though L. Bonnard does

Transcription 

“crois le mesme Sextius [fondateur des bains d’Aix-en-Provence] autheur & fondateur des Bains d’Aist en Savoye, leur antique structure & l’arc triomphal […] [24], m’en font soupçonner quelque chose.”