GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Sanctuary of the Fountain
 
Author(s) Zeiller, Martin
  Protestant author (1589-1661)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1661
Inscription
References Zeiller/Merian 1661, IV, p. 50
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 

« ad Parthenium quoddam sacrum pervenitur, de la Fontaine dictum, ubi prius Dianæ Templum fuit : quod propter murorum antiquitatem, in quibus nulla calcis commissura aut coagmentatio : propterque columnarum excavatarum positum & Idolorum tensas : foraminum item, per quæ fumus sacrificiorum exiit : locorum quoque quibus victimæ cædebantur, & sanguine parietes imbuebantur, spectatu dignum est. »