Pont Flavien
Coordinates: 43 ° 32 ′ 29 " N , 5 ° 2 ′ 35" E
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| Convicted | Via Julia Augusta | |
| Crossing of | Touloubre | |
| place | Saint-Chamas , Bouches-du-Rhône department ( France ) | |
| construction | Arch bridge with vaulted vaults | |
| overall length | 25 m | |
| width | 6 m | |
| Number of openings | 1 | |
| Clear width | 12.3 m | |
| Arch thickness (vertex) | 1 m | |
| Arch slenderness | 12: 1 | |
| construction time | approx. 12 BC Chr. | |
| Client | Claudius Donnius Flavius | |
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The Pont Flavien ( dt Flavian Bridge ) is a stone arch bridge from the time of the Roman Empire over the Touloubre in the village of Saint-Chamas in southern France . Its well-preserved triumphal arches at both entrances are characteristic.
Already around 2000 BC At this point there was a wooden bridge along a road.
According to the inscription on the bridge, Claudius Donnius Flavius, who was a priest of the Roma and Augustus during the Augustan period, built the bridge. The date of construction is about 12 BC. It was estimated when construction began on the Via Julia Augusta , which connected Marseille ( massalia ) with the Étang-de-Berre ( stagnum mastromela ).
- L (ucius) Donnius C (ai) f (ilius) Flavos flamen Romae
- et Augusti testamento fierei iussit
- arbitratu C (ai) Donnei Venae et C (ai) Attei Rufei
The bridge is listed as a monument historique .
literature
- Colin O'Connor: Roman Bridges , Cambridge University Press 1993, ISBN 0-521-39326-4 , pp. 40, 95f. (G2)
- Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale , Vol. 2, Edizioni Canova, Venice 1994, ISBN 88-85066-66-6 , pp. 247-249 (No. 494)
See also
Web links
- Pont Flavien. In: Structurae
- Pont Flavien at brueckenweb
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQIVyNPRF8 Pont FLAVIEN You Tube