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) Bergeron, Pierre
  Geographer and traveler (c. 1580-1638)
Resource type Manuscript
Date 1612
Inscription
References Bergeron 5560, f. 381v°
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 136-137 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 71-72 ; Rothé/Trézigny 2005, pp. 453-455 ; Holtz 2011

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 

« La grande Eglise de Marseille dite Majour est en un coin de la ville vers la mer. Cestoit un temple des payens. »