GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Circus
 
Author(s) Bovis, Jean-Baptiste
  Priest from Arles (1500?-1600?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1641
Inscription
References Bovis 1641, pp. 117-118
Bibliography

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

Transcription 

« Les vestiges de cet Autel [de Diane] se voyent encores à la Roquette, puis qu’on y voit [118] encores vne des pyramides d’iceluy. »