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Ville | Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13) |
Subject(s) | Circus |
Author(s) | Zinzerling, Just |
Dutch scholar (1590-1618) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1616 |
Inscription | |
References | Zinzerling 1627, p. 183 |
Bibliography | Bernard 1859, pp. 1-14 ; Constans 1921, pp. 325-345 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 90 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 419-426 |
Remarks | The circus aedicule described by Gervase of Tilbury in the 13th century no longer existed in the 16th century; only the obelisk – three-quarters of which were buried – remained. Zinzerling stayed in France from 1612 to 1616 |
Transcription
« Pyramis ex saxo solido 60. pedum, vt dicunt, (exstant tamen hodie tantùm 24.) in loco extra vrbem quem la Roquette appellant. Vulgò fertur ara lata (à qua nomen habeat vrbs) isthic fuisse, in qua Dianæ immolati fuerint quotannis iuvenes duo & sanguine illorum populus adspersus. »
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