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| THE ANONYMOUS PILGRIM OF BORDEAUX (333 A.D.) |
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Aerial view of the modern city of Bordeaux. There the Garonne and Dordogne rivers join together to form the 75-km long Gironde estuary. |
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One of four silver cups found in Vicarello (Bracciano - Rome). The cups, a votive gift by an ancient traveller to a healer god, are made in the shape of a Roman milestone (1st century AD). They are engraved with an inscription describing the whole itinerary from Cadiz (Spain) to Rome. |
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3. A Latin inscription engraved on the Vicarello cup gives all the details of the itinerary from Gades (Cadiz - Spain) to Rome, as indicated in the title of the inscription. |
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