GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13) |
| Subject(s) | Aqueduct |
| Author(s) | Saxi, Pierre |
| Canon from Arles (15.. ?-16.. ?) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1629 |
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| References | Saxi 1629, p. 166 |
| Bibliography | Constans 1921, pp. 401-404 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 91 |
| Remarks | The remains of subterranean works beneath the 'Porte de Cavalerie', attributed by Saxi to the Saracens besieged by Charles Martel, were probably parts of a main sewer and an evacuation conduit |
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Transcription
« at uicti se in tutiora loca recepere ; cuniculos enim miro opere fabricatos in diuersas agrorum partes erumpentes fecerant, quos annis praeteritis vidimus, dum uallo muniretur porta militaris, licet fluentibus disiectisque temporum iniuria fornicibus. » |
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