GALLIA ROMANA
Database of texts and images
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Ville | Narbonne (Aude, 11) |
Subject(s) | Miscellanea |
Author(s) | Gölnitz, Abraham |
Geographer and cartographer from Danzig (15.. ?–16.. ?) | |
Resource type | Printed book |
Date | 1631 |
Inscription | |
References | Gölnitz 1631, p. 580 |
Bibliography | Gayraud 1981 ; Dellong 2003 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 34-35, 84 |
Remarks | In order to finish Narbonne's ramparts, started under Louis XIII, François I had the subsisting Roman remains, which mostly came from the Gallo-Roman necroplis, collected up and used as building material |
Transcription
« Ipsa mœnia non pauca inclusa habent monumenta & lapides sepulchrales, partim regum aliquot Franciæ, partim priscorum Romanorum, non tamen lectu faciles ; descriptu difficiliores, quòd non permissum valla conscendere sine præfecti consensu. » |