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    The Porta Trigemina was one of the main gates in the ancient 4th century BC Servian Wall of Rome, Italy. The gate no longer exists, but it is frequently...
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    Walls through the Porta Trigemina. When the later Aurelian Walls were built, the road left the city through the Porta Ostiensis (Porta San Paolo). In the...
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    The Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered...
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  • probably places the temple at the north end of the hill, just above porta Trigemina. The temple was struck by lightning around the time of the death of...
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  • third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome Porta Trigemina, a gate in the fourth-century Servian Wall of Rome Porta del Popolo, once the Porta Flaminia, a gate in the fourth-century...
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  • he became engaged in trade, and built a chapel to Hercules near the Porta Trigemina, at the foot of the Aventine Hill, supposedly in gratitude for having...
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    in a place called Salinae, which later became the location of the Porta Trigemina. According to Evander, Hercules stopped to pasture the cattle he had...
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  • The Servian Wall goes along the bank of the river, is pierced by the Porta Trigemina (you can see the three openings) and starts up the Aventine. Beyond...
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  • Vortumnus, Fortuna Equestris, Hercules Victor (or Invictus at the Porta Trigemina), Castor and Pollux, the Camenae, and Flora 17: Portunalia in honour...
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    Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber...
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    to Rome from the east and emptied into the Forum Boarium near the Porta Trigemina. Nearly all of its length before entering the city was underground...
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  • Thumbnail for Arch of Lentulus and Crispinus
    Lentuli et Crispini) was a triumphal arch in Rome, sited between the Porta Trigemina of the Servian Wall and the statio Annonae, to the south of the Forum...
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    natalis for the Temple of Hercules Victor or Hercules Invictus near the Porta Trigemina; for the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Circus Flaminius; for the...
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    Porta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome. The name derives from the gens Pincia, who owned the eponymous hill (Pincian Hill). In ancient...
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    incorporating an arch for a catapult. Porta Lavernalis – also joined up with the via Ostiensis. Porta Trigemina – this triple gate near the Forum Boarium...
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  • Porta Quirinalis Porta Raudusculana Porta Salutaris Porta Sanqualis Porta Trigemina Porta Viminale Aurelian Walls Porta Appia Porta Ardeatina Porta Asinaria...
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    The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio...
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  • Thumbnail for Porta Metronia
    Porta Metronia is a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The gate is located in the southern section of the wall between Porta San...
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  • on behalf of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, in 54 BC; Marcus Octavius Herennius, trader, then the builder of a chapel to Hercules near the Porta Trigemina....
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  • Thumbnail for Porta Asinaria
    The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard rooms, it was built between...
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    Porta San Pancrazio is one of the southern gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. The gate houses the National Association of Garibaldi Veterans...
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    The Porta Esquilina (or Esquiline Gate) was a gate in the Servian Wall, of which the Arch of Gallienus is extant today. Tradition dates it back to the...
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    Porta Cavalleggeri was one of the gates of the Leonine Wall in Rome (Italy). Its remains are now walled in the stretch of wall facing the square that...
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    of Livia (Latin: Ad Gallinas Albas) is an ancient Roman villa at Prima Porta, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Rome, Italy, along the Via Flaminia. It...
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    Porta Tiburtina or Porta San Lorenzo is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy, through which the Via Tiburtina exits the city. The gate originally...
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    The Porta Caelimontana or Celimontana was a gate in the Servian Wall on the rise of the Caelian Hill (Caelius Mons). The Via Caelimontana ran from it;...
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    The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). Originally known as the...
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    Porta Settimiana is one of the gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. It rises at the northern vertex of the rough triangle traced by the town walls...
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    which led from the Circus to the Aventine where it encountered the Porta Trigemina. Other features in Regio XI are the still intact Arch of Janus, and...
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    northern gate in the Aurelian Walls, once the Porta Flaminia of ancient Rome, and now called the Porta del Popolo. This was the starting point of the...
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