Porta Capena
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
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Last modified
Jul 23, 2020 05:06 PM
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History
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
41.8930055898, 12.4894271938
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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)
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gate (of a city), city gate
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- See Further:
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- New Pauly, Porta Asinaria; P. Aurelia; P. Caelemontana; P. Capena; P. Carmentalis; P. Collina; P. Esquilina; P. Sanqualis; P. Trigemina (Gates of Rome)
- Platner and Ashby 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, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/27164982> [accessed: 25 January 2021]
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