GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Gallargues-le-Montueux (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Pont Ambroix
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Rulman, Anne de
  Protestant lawyer attached to the tribunal of Nîmes (1583-1639)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date 1626-1628
Inscription « PONS AMBRUSSI Le pont Ambruieis près de Gallargues sur le Vidourle »
References Rulman 8648, f. 175
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. See the description given by Rulman (1630, p. 26)

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