Dolabella arch
The Dolabella Arch is an ancient city gate in Rome , next to the Church of Santa Maria in Domnica , which leads into the park of Villa Celimontana. It was built in the time of the Roman Republic as a city gate in the Servian Wall with the name Porta Caelimontana .
location
The Porta Caelimontana was on the eponymous hill, the Caelius . If it was previously assumed that the Porta Caelimontana was located between the Porta Esquilina and the second gate of the Servian Wall on the Caelius, the Porta Querquetulana , the view has now gained acceptance that the Porta Caelimontana was southwest of the Porta Querquetulana and with the Dolabella arch can be identified. Outside the Servian Wall, a street, probably called Via Caelimontana , ran in an easterly direction (today's route of Via S. Stefano Rotondo). Within the city wall, the Clivus Scauri led from the Porta Caelimontana towards the Palatine Hill , the Vicus Camenarum along the city wall to the Porta Capena and the Vicus Capitis Africae in a northerly direction to the Colosseum .
history
Like all gates of the Servian Wall, the Porta Caelimontana was restored in Augustan times. An inscription on the outside of the attic shows that this was done by the consuls of 10 AD, Publius Cornelius Dolabella and Gaius Junius Silanus . The arch is made of travertine from Tivoli . In Neronian times, the Aqua Claudia was extended over the arch.
literature
- Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , pp. 204, 208.
Web links
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 '8.2 " N , 12 ° 29" 42.6 " E
Remarks
- ^ For example, Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome , Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 405; nor Westermann Great Atlas for World History , Braunschweig 1985, pp. 32–33.
- ↑ CIL 6, 1384 : P. Cornelius P. f. Dolabella / C. Junius C. f. Silanus flaming martial. / cos. / ex sc / faciundum curaverunt idemque probav .