Porta Naevia
The Porta Naevia was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall in Rome .
According to the list of gates by Marcus Terentius Varro , it was the first of the sequence porta Naevia , porta Raudusculana and porta Lavernalis . The gate would therefore be located in the eastern area of the Aventine . This is supported by a finding of inscriptions, which proves a vicus portae naeviae for region XII . This vicus was probably an extension of the Via Ardeatina , which ran outside the gate , so that the gate can be located between the churches of Santa Balbina all'Aventino and San Saba .
According to Sextus Pompeius Festus , the name of the gate, which is also mentioned in Titus Livius and Iulius Obsequens , can be traced back to the silva or nemora Naevia , which belonged to a certain Naevius and had a bad reputation because of the accumulations of day thieves and vagabonds found there. The remains of the gate are not preserved.
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 , pp. 304-305.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 5, 163 : Sequitur Porta Naevia, quod in nemoribus Naeviis: etenim loca, ubi ea, sic dicta. Deinde Rauduscula [...] Hinc Lavernalis [...] .
- ↑ CIL 6,975
- ↑ Titus Livius 2:11.
- ^ Iulius Obsequens, Liber prodigiorum 44.
- ↑ Sextus Pompeius Festus 169 ( online ).
Coordinates: 41 ° 52 ′ 48 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 13.2 ″ E