GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Baptistery
 
Author(s) Symeoni, Gabriele
  Italian polygraph (1509-c. 1570)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1558
Inscription
References Symeoni 1558, pp. 19-20
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 1103-1104 ; Renucci 1943-1 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 42-44 ; Rothé/Trézigny 2005, pp. 453-455

Remarks

The vestiges known as the 'Temple de Diane', in fact those of a Paleochristian episcopal ensemble, could still be seen on the site of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de la Major and of the former Romanesque cathedral known as the 'Vieille Major'

Transcription 

« Partendo dalle Penne ce n’andiammo à Marsilia, dove io non seppi vedere se non certe sipolture antiche, parte nella chiesa della Maggiore, dove anticamente soleva essere il tempio di Diana, & parte di la dal Porto nella badia si san [20] Vettorio. »