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Aerial view of Lugdunum (Lyon) in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The drawing is in landscape format. It is organized within a frame drawn in ink. Traces of watercolor are visible in the margins. Inscriptions appear on the reverse.
The city stretches along the banks of the Saône and Rhône rivers. Three boat bridges link the banks. In the upper part of the drawing, on the heights of the Fourvière hill, the city’s dwellings are built inside a wall. A residential and craft district is also located at the confluence, which here forms an island. On the right is the forum, consisting of a quadrangular courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded portico and a temple. It is flanked on the right by the theater and the odeon, each with an enclosed pleasure garden. A sanctuary, with a temple built in the center of a porticoed courtyard, is located
behind them. The circus is outside the fortified enclosure, in the background, on the left of the drawing. The port and its warehouses are below. A number of barges moored at the quays show the port’s commercial activity. The Trois Gaules amphitheater stands on the heights of Condate (Croix-Rousse), on the right of the drawing. It is flanked by a sanctuary built on terraced ground.
The lower part of the drawing also shows archaeological objects discovered during excavations: ceramics, steles, a roundel and a coin.