Porta Capena
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
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The Porta Capena was a gate in Rome's Republican city walls ("Servian Wall") located on the south-west slope of the Caelian Hill.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/27164982
41.884, 12.491
- Representative Locations:
- GeoHack location of Porta Capena (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Porta Capena (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Porta Capena connection Caelius Mons (unspecified date range)
- Porta Capena part of (analytical) Murus Servii Tullii (unspecified date range)
- Porta Capena connection Roma (unspecified date range)
- Honos et Virtus, Aedes located near Porta Capena (unspecified date range)
- Regio I (Porta Capena) located near Porta Capena (unspecified date range)
gate (of a city), city gate
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Cifani 2022
- New Pauly Porta Asinaria; P. Aurelia; P. Caelemontana; P. Capena; P. Carmentalis; P. Collina; P. Esquilina; P. Sanqualis; P. Trigemina (Gates of Rome)
- Platner 1929 (Perseus) PORTA CAPENA
- Quilici 1989
- Richardson 1992 301
- Sténuit 2003
- ToposText Porta Capena (Rome)
- Wikipedia (English) Porta Capena
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Porta Capena: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/27164982> [accessed: 16 June 2025]
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