GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Funeral monument (La Gironette)
 
Author(s) Saint-Julien, Pierre de
 

Apostolic prothonotary, secular canon of the church of Saint-Pierre in Macôn (c. 1519-1593)

Resource type Printed book
Date 1580
Inscription
References Saint-Julien 1580, p. 204
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, II, p. 224-226 ; DLF XVIe siècle, p. 1059 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 146-147 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

The ruins of the monument identified as the Temple of Proserpina are situated in the area known as 'La Folie', north-west of the 'Pont Saint Andoche'. The foundations were excavated in the 19th century

Transcription 

« quant au temple de Cupidon les bons compagnons tiennent qu’il estoit en des brussailles en la montagne où il y a encores une fontaine qui a un nom digne du Dieu auquel elle estoit consacrée. »