GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13) |
| Subject(s) | Saint-Sauveur “Cellars” |
| Author(s) | Peiresc, Claude-Nicolas Fabri de |
| Magistrate and antiquarian from Aix (1580-1637) | |
| Resource type | Manuscript |
| Date | Before 1637 |
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| References | Peiresc 1864, f. 265v° |
| Bibliography | Gassendi 1641 ; DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 979-980 ; Lemerle 2002-1, pp. 287-302 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 64-65 ; Rothé/Trézigny 2005, pp. 334-337 |
| Remarks | What is concerned here were not in fact water reservoirs, but a vast retaining structure in pink limestone, situated between two platforms and dating from the Hellenistic period, which had been incorporated into the Convent of the Saint-Sauveur |
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Transcription
« Soubs l’eglise des dames religieuses du monastere St Saulueur il y a des grottes les unes contre les autres qui estoient des reseruoirs d’eaux anciennement dont on pourroit prendre les dimensions si on a licence d’entrer à cet effet dans ledit Monastere. » |
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