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Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Aqueduct
 
Author(s) Gölnitz, Abraham
  Geographer and cartographer from Danzig (15.. ?–16.. ?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1631
Inscription
References Gölnitz 1631, pp. 532-533
Bibliography Constans 1921, pp. 383-404 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 91
Remarks

The passage cited probably concerns a deviation of the aqueduct situated near Les Baux, which supplied the 'Porte de la Redoute' and the amphitheatre with water

Transcription 

« Asservantur in eadem curia canales plumbei č Rhodani imo olim extracti, quibus aqua in ulteriorem urbis partem deducta fuit. […][533] Ab hoc [amphiteatro] itio fit ad cellam vinariam publicam ; ubi ductus ostenditur, olim sub Rhodano, quo ibatur Nemausum usque. »