GALLIA ROMANA

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Notice

Ville Bourbon-l'Archambault (Allier, 03)
Subject(s) Thermae
  Perspective elevation of the open air basin
Author(s) Nicolay, Nicolas de ?
  Geographer and king's cosmographer (1517-1583)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date 1569
Inscription « POVRTRAICT DESDICTZ BAINGS »
References Nicolay 3243, p. 115
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 886-887 ; Hérisson 1875, pp. I-II ; Bonnard 1908, pp. 444-448 ;Corrocher/Piboule/Hilaire 1989, p. 34 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 69, 109

Remarks

This basin, described by Nicolay (p. 114 and 115), was used as a swimming pool

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