GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Nîmes (Gard, 30) |
Subject(s) | Sanctuary of the Fountain |
Author(s) | Quadt, Matthias |
German geographer and engraver (1557/58-1613) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1603 |
Inscription | |
References | Quadt 1603, p. 36 |
Bibliography | Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 241-268 ; Gros 1996, pp. 370-371, 440-441 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 87 ; Lemerle 2013-2 |
Remarks | The building identified as a temple is in reality the place of worship in the Sanctuary of the Fontaine |
Transcription
« Templum fonti propinquum, quod suam integritatem defendit adversus iniurias temporis, forma est quadrangulari duosque habet ordines collaterales columnarum, suis Basibus insistentium, adeoque decoratum, vt ad perfectionem artis Architecturæ nihil possit requiri. Columnæ fenestras rotundas habent, & nidos collocandis diis Romanis idoneos : olim hic fuerunt suntque adhuc Aquilæ, è plano prominentes, quæ veteris imperii Romani notæ sunt, nunc capitibus truncatæ sunt visuntur, coniicitur id à Wisigothis factum, vt è cordibus hominum evellerent memoriam imperii Rom., quod subegerant, vtque indicarent Rom. Imperium corpus esse capite truncatum. » |