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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. Two boat bridges connect the banks. In the upper part of the drawing, on the heights of the Fourvière hill, the city’s housing is developed. A residential and craft district is also located at the confluence. The forum can be seen on the right. It consists of a quadrangular courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded portico and a temple. To the right are the theater and the odeon, each with an enclosed pleasure garden. A sanctuary with a temple
temple built in the center of a porticoed courtyard and a circus. The port and its warehouses lie below. A number of barges moored at the quays showcase the port’s commercial activity. The amphitheater of the Three Gauls stands on the heights of Condate (Croix-Rousse), on the right in the drawing. It is flanked by a sanctuary built on terraced ground. A necropolis is visible in the lower left-hand corner, upstream from the wooden bridge.
There are several versions of this drawing.