GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Funeral monument (Tower near the river)
 
Author(s) Chasseneuz, Barthélemy
  Jurist and president of the parliament of Provence (1480-1541)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1529
Inscription
References Chasseneuz 1529, pars XII, consideratio LX, f. 66
Bibliography

Papillon 1742, I, pp. 132-138 ; DLF XVIe siècle, p. 261 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 147-149 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

The edifice, situated at the foot of the city walls, north of the Porte d'Arroux, was in fact a funeral monument that existed until the late 18th century

Transcription 

« In arctoo fere aspectu iuxta Aroti fluenta Phanum Plutonis & Proserpine consecratum locabatur : vbi Aurioli, augures, & Genethliaci augurabant. »