Arch of Canosa

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The Arch of Trajan in Canosa di Puglia

The arch of Canosa di Puglia (also called Porta Romana, Porta Varrone or Trajan's Arch ) is a single- gate arch of honor of unknown destination or a city ​​gate from the first half of the 2nd century. Sandro De Maria suspected on the basis of the reduced dimensions, the simple shapes and the type of execution that it was a private honorary monument of a respected family of the city. A private arch of honor belonging to a family, which is comparable in terms of dimensions, but nevertheless considerably more elaborate, has been preserved , for example, with the Arco dei Gavi in Verona . The structure is 12 meters long and 5 meters wide and 13 meters high.

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literature

  • Sandro De Maria: Gli archi onorari di Roma e dell'Italia romana. “L'Erma” di Bretschneider, Rome 1988, p. 236 f. No. 9.
  • Luigi Todisco: Rilievi romani a Trani, Castel del Monte, Canosa. In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Volume 105, 1993, No. 2, pp. 873-894, here pp. 890-891 ( online ).

Coordinates: 41 ° 13 ′ 39 "  N , 16 ° 2 ′ 46.7"  E