GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Saxi, Pierre
  Canon from Arles (15.. ?-16.. ?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1629
Inscription
References Saxi 1629, p. 22
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

All the others authors who mention the amphitheatre count sixty arches rather than fifty

Transcription 

« Nobilissimum [Amphitheatrum] exurgit Arelate, quinquaginta sex arcus seu fornices habens, amplissimis subterraneis fossis subnixum eleganti olim marmore, adornatum, nunc vrbanis priuatisque ædificiis inseruit »…