GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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| Ville | Gallargues-le-Montueux (Gard, 30) |
| Subject(s) | Pont Ambroix |
| Author(s) | Rulman, Anne de |
| Protestant lawyer attached to the tribunal of Nîmes (1583-1639) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1630 |
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| References | Rulman 1630, p. 26 |
| Bibliography | Mesqui 1981, II, p. 82 ; Provost 1999-1, p. 373 |
| Remarks | It is by way of this bridge (1st century), originally comprising seven semicircular arches pierced with rectangular openings, that the Via Domitia crossed the Vidourle River. Rulman included a drawing of it in one of his manuscripts (Rulman 8648, f. 175) |
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Transcription
« Et en outre on passoit la riuiere du Vidourle, per pontem Ambrussi, duquel Iule Cæsar à (sic) daigné faire mention. Il estoit basti à cinq arcades, quatre desquelles sont en leur entier ; & la cinquieme du costé de Montpellier est abbatue auec tous les gardefous. » |
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