GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Pyramid of Couhard
 
Author(s) Ladone, Étienne
  Lawyer and poet (16..?-16..?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1640
Inscription
References Ladone 1640, pp. 3-4
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, I, pp. 364-365 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 159-161 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

The work published by Ladone is an annotated poem on the subject of Autun's antiquities

Transcription 

« HOC IDEO FABRICATA LOCO. […] [4] Montem haud dubie Coüar intelligit Romanæ portæ per quam ingressus est Constantinus oppositum, aduersasque aspectantem desuper arces, in cuius summo cacumine, nostra hæc Pyramis Cabilonensi Lugdunensique viæ proxima, collocata est. »