Column of the Boatmen

The Column of the Boatmen (TM 488330 ) is a first century AD column from Lutetia, Paris. In the third century, it was cut to pieces and used as foundation blocks for buildings along the riverbank on the Île de la Cité. Found in 1710 when excavating a crypt for the Notre-Dame, it is now in the Musée de Cluny.
The text, one of the first Latin monuments known from northern France, dedicates the pillar erected by the guild of boatmen to Tiberius. It honours Jupiter and other Roman and Gaulish deities.

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