Porta Collina
The Porta Collina was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall in Rome .
It was located on the northernmost section of the city wall on the Quirinalshügel (collis Quirinalis) , after which it was also named. A heavily fortified part of the Servian Wall, called agger , began at it . Remains of the Porta Collina were found in the 19th century during the construction of the Ministry of Finance. They were at the intersection of Via XX Settembre and Via Goito.
At the Porta Collina two important roads leading north began, the Via Salaria and the Via Nomentana . So the Gauls arrived at their invasion at the beginning of the 4th century BC. Through the Porta Collina to Rome. When Hannibal in 211 BC When he advanced to Rome in the 3rd century BC, he rode to the Porta Collina. 82 BC In BC Sulla and Crassus triumphed in the battle of Porta Collina over the Samnites and Lucanians who had advanced on Rome .
3 km before the Porta was the Ponte Salario , a bridge that controlled the strategically important crossing over the Aniene .
literature
- Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , pp. 21-22, 242-243, 247.
- Rudolf Groß: Collina porta. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Sp. 242-243, 247.
- Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : Porta Collina . In: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 406.
Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius 5:41 ; Plutarch , Camillus 22 .
- ↑ Livius 26, 10 ; Pliny , naturalis historia 15, 76 .
- ↑ Plutarch, Sulla 29 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 26 " N , 12 ° 29 ′ 56" E