Porta Querquetulana

The Porta Querquetulana was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall in Rome . The name of the gate (literally "oak forest gate") was probably derived from a nearby oak grove. According to Tacitus, Mons Querquetulanus was the original name of the hill Caelius , on which the gate stood, because of the oak trees .

location

The Porta Querquetulana was next to the Porta Caelimontana one of the two gates of the city wall on the Caelius. If it was previously assumed that the Porta Querquetulana was between the Porta Capena and the Porta Caelimontana, the view has now gained acceptance that the Porta Querquetulana was located northeast of the Porta Caelimontana, near the later church of Santi Quattro Coronati . Presumably the Via Tusculana led through this gate. Archaeological remains of the Porta Querquetulana are not known.

literature

• Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2685-8 , pp. 12-13 and 22.

Web links

• Article Porta Querquetulana in Platner / Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929)

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 18 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 55 ″  E

Remarks

1. ↑ Pliny , naturalis historia 16, 37 .
2. ↑ Tacitus, Annalen 4, 65 .
3. ^ For example, Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome , Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 413; nor Westermann Great Atlas for World History , Braunschweig 1985, pp. 32–33.
4. ^ Filippo Coarelli: Rome. An archaeological guide . Zabern, Mainz 2000, pp. 12-13 and 22.