GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Agen (Lot-et-Garonne, 47)
Subject(s)	Roman city walls

Author(s)	Platter, Thomas II
	Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1599
Inscription
References	Platter A λ V, f. 393v°= Keiser 1968, p. 440
Bibliography	Keiser 1968 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Fages 1995, p. 112 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 101
Remarks	Thomas Platter is one of the first to mention the antiquities of Agen

Transcription « Die statt ist mechtig alt, unndt haben auch die Römer ihren gedacht, als sie Garites nenneten, wie dann Ptolemaeus Agen die hauptstatt Garitum nennet. Man sichts woll an der alten stattmauren bey Sant Stephans kirchen. » = “The town is very old. The Romans knew it; they called it Garites and Ptolemy called Agen the capital of the Garites. The ancientness of the town is clearly shown by the old city walls near the Church of Saint Etienne.”