Porta Lavernalis
The Porta Lavernalis was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall in Rome .
The gate was named after the nearby sacred grove of Laverna , which was presumably located outside the gate, as thieves used to hide their prey there. According to the enumeration of the gates by Marcus Terentius Varro , the porta Lavernalis followed the gates porta Naevia and porta Raudusculana . It would therefore be located west of these gates on the Aventine , where an ancient road, following the course of today's Via di Porta Lavernale, broke through the city wall and connected the vicus Armilustri with the Via Ostiensis . In that case, the gate was probably directly east of the 15th century Bastione del Sangallo . On the other hand, there is a Laverna grove on Via Salaria, in the north of the city. It remains to be seen whether it is another place of worship of the protective goddess of thieves or whether the gate against Varro is also to be found in the north. Remnants of the gate were not found.
literature
- Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1981, ISBN 3-451-17247-X , p. 20.
- Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 409 ( online ).
- Lawrence Richardson Jr .: A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD et al. 1992, ISBN 0-8018-4300-6 , p. 304, ( limited preview in Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sextus Pompeius Festus 117 ( online ).
- ↑ Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 5, 163 : Sequitur Porta Naevia, quod in nemoribus Naeviis [...] Deinde Rauduscula, quod aerata fuit. [...] Hinc Lavernalis from ara Lavernae, quod ibi ara eius .
- ↑ Scholien des Pseudo-Acro zu Horace , Epistulae 1, 16, 60.