GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Porte de Rome (Porte des Marbres)
 
Author(s) Léauté, Jacques. Physician from Autun 15..?-1582?)
  Thomas, Edme. Official, cantor and canon of the cathedral of Autun (1591-1660)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1650
Inscription
References Léauté/Thomas 1650, pp. 28, 43
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, II, pp. 319-321 ; Rebourg 1993, p. 55 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

Autun's south-eastern city gateway, the 'Porte de Rome', formerly known as the 'Porte des Marbres', was called the 'Porte de Chalon' in the 17th century

Transcription 

« Quæ à marmore igitur dicitur pyla, prima nobis dicetur etiam si obliterata sit, & nouis vrbis munimentis substrata. […] [43] portam, quæ à Marmore dictam diximus, non visemus, quia non extat, sed fundamentis ipsius insidet agger, seu vrbis nouæ munimentum, & insignitur in ultima Tabula. »