GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Dijon (Côte-d’Or, 21)
Subject(s) Miscellanea
 
Author(s) Richard, Jean
  Lawyer (15.. ?- ?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1585
Inscription
References Richard 1585, ff. 25-28v°
Bibliography

Frézouls 1988, pp. 231-263 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 126 ; Provost 2009, pp. 298-302

Remarks

The remains discovered by Richard and his friends came from the town's western necropolis, where the Saint Bénigne Basilica was located

Transcription 

[On the discovery of votive inscriptions and a mosaic pavement] « Et quo hi lapides effossi loco, existimo olim templum Fortunæ extructum fuisse. […] [26v°] Cuius generis in nostra hac urbe hodierno etiam die visitur in sacello quodam perantiquo ad ædem Diui Benigni. Comperimusque nouissime ego & lectissimi viri Antonius Morisotus & Nicolaus Hubertus inter deambulandum in diversorio quodam ad ripam Oschalæ quod est sanctæ Margaretæ. […] [28v°] Porrò templum fuisse non Vulgaris Fortunæ, sed Reducis, cuius antiquissimum priscis illis & vetustissima memoria numen, patet ex Plutarchi locis de Seruio Tullio »…