Porta Trigemina
The Porta Trigemina was an ancient city gate of the Servian Wall in Rome . It originally came from the 5th century BC. BC, but like the entire city wall was in the 4th century BC. Chr. Renewed.
The porta Trigemina was located between the western slope of the Aventine and the Tiber , but its exact location is not certain, although it probably stood in the 15th century. It is often mentioned in ancient written sources. Its location is believed by some under the Church of Santa Sabina . Others link it to the discovery of a 3.30-meter-wide arch of tuff, which was excavated 40 meters south of the Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin .
The gate was located in one of the most populous quarters of republican Rome near the Forum Boarium , between the most important port before the expansion of Ostia under Claudius , the salt stores and the shipyards. The porta Trigemina connected the city with the Via Ostiensis. The gatherings of beggars in front of the gate were notorious. At the gate there was a statue of Lucius Minucius, which led to the assumption that the porta Trigemina was to be equated with the porta Minucia .
The fact that the name of the gate comes from three arched openings in the gate system located next to one another can be ruled out to a certain extent, since such constructions cannot be proven before Sulla's time . Alternatively, it is assumed that the facility, which was renovated in Augustan times, consisted of three gates staggered one behind the other.
The porta Trigemina was the scene of the most violent fighting at the end of the Gracchi period , when the consular army forced the supporters of the Gracchi into the gate and cut them down.
literature
- Filippo Coarelli : Rome. An archaeological guide. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 1981, ISBN 3-451-17247-X , pp. 22, 281, 283.
- Rudolph Groß: Trigemina porta. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 958 f.
- Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 418 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frontinus 1, 5; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1, 32, 2; 1, 39, 4; Titus Livius 41, 27, 8.
- ^ Plautus , Captivi 90.