GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Anonymous French writer (16th century)
 
Resource type Manuscript
Date Late 16th century
Inscription
References Anonymous Nicolay 242, p. 2
Bibliography

Constans 1921, pp. 298-324 ; Gros 1991, pp. 49-50 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-337 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 89 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 274-283

Remarks

The anonymous author's text was copied in 1776 by the abbot Bonnemant from the original version conserved in the cabinet of M. Nicolay

Transcription 

« ea [monumenta suæ antiquitatis et antiquæ dignitatis] sunt Amphitheatrum, et spaciosissimum et nobilissimum, quod vulgo Arenas dicunt, adhuc satis integrum, sed nimis plebeis domibus occupatum. »