Pons probi
Coordinates: 41 ° 52 ′ 48 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 15 ″ E
| Pons probi | ||
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| Convicted | Connection Ripa - Trastevere | |
| Crossing of | Tiber | |
| place | Rome ( Italy ) | |
| construction time | Between 276 and 282 AD | |
| Status | Destroyed | |
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The Pons Probi (Italian: Ponte di Probo ) was a bridge in Rome that spanned the Tiber and connected today's districts of Ripa below the Aventine and Trastevere .
The road bridge was probably commissioned as a new construction by Kaiser Probus (232–282) and was simply named Pons Novus (New Bridge). It is generally identified today with the bridge known in the Middle Ages as Pons Marmoreus Theodosii or Pons Theodosii in ripa ( Graphia ), which probably owes its name to a restoration by Emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century.
The bridge may have been built to connect the watermills that Probus' predecessor, Aurelian , built on the Gianicolo with the granaries at the Tiber harbor.
The bridge was partially destroyed in the 11th century and finally in 1484. Remnants of the foundations were still visible in the Tiber until its canalization in 1877–1880.
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- ↑ Thomas Krönung (ed.): Mirabilia Urbis Romae - The miracles of the city of Rome . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-30931-1 , p. 74 .
- ^ Frank Kolb : Rome, the history of the city in antiquity . CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39666-6 , p. 666 .
- ^ Samuel Ball Platner : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015, ISBN 978-1-108-08324-9 , pp. 401 .