Gallia Romana

Notice

City Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s)
Author(s)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date Early 17th century
Inscription « Le theatre estant proche l'amphiteatre cy deuant Il nest plus »
References BnF, Collection Dupuy, ms. 667, f. 151
Bibliography

Fontenay 1889, p. 191 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 76-78 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

Transcription

Fontenay 1889, p. 191 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 76-78 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Erroneously identified as a theatre, the monument no longer existed at the beginning of the 17th century. The drawings of Autun’s antiquities were commissioned by Pierre Jeannin (known as the President Jeannin); they were gathered together by Peiresc some thirty years later