GALLIA ROMANA
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Ville | Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13) |
Subject(s) | Circus |
Author(s) | Platter, Thomas II |
Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628) | |
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Date | 1596 |
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References | Platter A λ V, f. 88v°= Keiser 1968, pp. 135-136 |
Bibliography | Constans 1921, pp. 325-345 ; Keiser 1968 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 90 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 419-426 |
Remarks | The passages in italics were added by Platter subsequently to the period in which the rest of the text was written (1604-1605). The circus aedicule described by Gervase of Tilbury in the 13th century no longer existed in the 16th century; only the obelisk remained, the upper part of which had been moved to the suburb known as the Faubourg de la Roquette, where it was taken by several authors for an altar dedicated to Diana |
Transcription
« Vor der statt an dem ort; welches man la Roquette nennet, sindt noch zwo große seül; wie ettlich meinen, von steinen gegoßen, auf welchen [136] der groß unndt abscheüchlich altar gewesen ist, dem keyser Augusto zugeeignet, auf welchem man alle jahr zu gewißer zeit, als den ersten tag maij, zwen junge knaben also lebendig (pro salute totius provinciae) zu glücklicher wolfahrt der gantzen provintz hatt aufgeopferet, die deßwegen in gemeinem kosten zevor woll sindt gemestet worden, unndt hat man nach verrichtetem opfer daß volck, welches dem greülichen opfer zugesehen hatt, mit der jünglingen blut woll bespritzet.»
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