GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Theatre
 
Author(s) Bovis, Jean-Baptiste
  Priest from Arles (1500?-1600?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1641
Inscription
References Bovis 1641, p. 11
Bibliography

Constans 1921, pp. 278-297 ; Gros 1996, pp. 292-293 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 89-90 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 287-301

Remarks

The college of Arles was built on the site of the theatre's stage; in 1664, it was replaced by the Convent of the Miséricorde; the theatre was not identified as such until the second half of the 17th century

Transcription 

« [les Romains] pauserent la statuë d’icelle Deesse [Minerve] sur deux hautes colonnes de marbre au milieu du college (qu’on croit estre celles qui se voyent encores) »…