GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, 31)
Subject(s)	Temple

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. 374v°= Keiser 1968, p. 409
Bibliography	Keiser 1968 ; Labrousse 1968, pp. 412-417 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 99-100
Remarks

Transcription « Neben anderen alten gebeüwen zu Tolosen sicht man noch in der gassen, Portaria genennet (vom Porta et Aries, daß ist thor unndt wider, härgenommen, die weil man an demselbigen ort Jovem Arietinum, daß ist den Jupiter angebettet hatt, unndt ist der wider daß fürnembst der Tholosaneren (simulachrum) bildtnuß gewesen) »… = “Besides many other old buildings, we saw, in Toulouse, in a lane called the 'Portaria' (derived from 'porta' and 'aries', that is 'gate' and 'ram', because Jovem Aretinum, that is to say Jupiter, was worshipped in this place and the ram was the symbol (simulacrum) of the nobility of Toulouse)…”