GALLIA ROMANA
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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. » |