Agger Tarquinii

The range of Servian wall (red line) between the gates Porta Collina (1) and Porta Esquilina (3) is as Agger designated

Agger Tarquinii , mostly just Agger (from Latin : agger "Wall") called, was a section of the Servian city wall in Rome . It stretched between Porta Collina and Porta Esquilina and protected the particularly endangered part of the city from the plain in the east. In the middle of the Agger was the Porta Viminalis . The length of the Agger was about 1,300 meters ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus : seven stages ). It consisted of a deep trench and a wall about ten meters high, to which an earth wall was poured on the inside, which was secured by a retaining wall.

The Servian city wall was supposedly built by the Roman king Servius Tullius (reigned 578-534 BC). His successor Tarquinius Superbus (reign 534-509 BC), from whom the Agger Tarquinii got his nickname, is said to have increased the eastern part further, so that he later referred to by Marcus Tullius Cicero as agger maximus ("highest wall") has been. The building can only be proven archaeologically for the 4th century BC. Chr.

Remnants of the Agger can be seen in the Piazza dei Cinquecento near the Stazione Termini and Piazza Manfredo Fanti .

Individual evidence

1. ^ De re publica , 2.11.

literature

• Filippo Coarelli: Rome. An archaeological guide . Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , pp. 21-22, 214.
• Karl Ernst Georges : Comprehensive Latin-German concise dictionary . Volume 1, Hannover 1913, reprint: Darmstadt 1998, Sp. 243–245 ( online at Zeno.org ).

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 9 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 4 ″  E