GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Pingon, Emmanuel Phibert de
  Lawyer, historian and antiquarian (Chambéry 1525-Turin 1582)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date c. 1550
Inscription
References Turin, Archivio di Stato, Antiquitatum Romanarum aliarumque Congeries..., mazzo 6, fascicolo 1, f. 186
Bibliography Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 96
Remarks

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

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