GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Nîmes (Gard, 30) |
| Subject(s) | Amphitheatre |
| Decorative motif | |
| Author(s) | Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de |
| Magistrate and antiquarian from Aix (1580-1637) | |
| Resource type | Drawing (pen and ink) |
| Date | Before 1637 |
| Inscription | « sur un des pilastres de l’Amphiteatre de Nismes en l’ordre d’embas » |
| References | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Dupuy, ms. 667, f. 131 |
| Bibliography | Gassendi 1641 ; DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 979-980 ; Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 336-350 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-336 ; Lemerle 2002-1, pp. 287-302 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 64-65, 85-86 ; Lemerle 2013-2 |
| Remarks | Identical drawing, 131. This phallic bas-relief (three phalli mounted by a women) was originally situated on a pilaster of the 46th bay: since 1829, it has been conserved in the 'Musée de la Ville'. A variant (three phalli united to form a single winged body, pecked at by birds and without a bell) is still visible on the upper part of the pilaster of the 9th bay of the western arcade. It was drawn by Rulman |
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