GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Porte d'Arroux
  Pavement
Author(s) Anonymous French artist (15..?-16..?)
 
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date Early 17th century
Inscription

« Grand paué entrant du portal D'Arroux en la ville contenant trente piedz de large voila tout ce qui reste » / « une clefs de Bronze appartenant à Mr Demontagu »

References BnF, Collection Dupuy, ms. 667, f. 143
Bibliography Rebourg 1993, pp. 45-48 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116
Remarks

The drawings of Autun's antiquities were commissioned by Pierre Jeannin (known as the President Jeannin); they were gathered together by Peiresc some thirty years later

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