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Porta Ardeatina

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Brady Kiesling

Last modified Sep 10, 2026 04:37 PM — History

The Porta Ardeatina was a gate in the city walls of Rome. While it is presumed that the Via Ardeatina exited the walls at this point, debates remain over the nature of the gate; the possibility that it was a postern has been raised.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/495155542

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.8732434, 12.4971045

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Porta Ardeatina (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Porta Ardeatina makes connections with:

Porta Ardeatina part of (analytical) Aurelian Walls (unspecified date range)

Porta Ardeatina receives connections from:

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Place type:
gate (of a city), city gate

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Porta Ardeatina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/495155542> [accessed: 14 October 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/495155542 |title=Places: 495155542 (Porta Ardeatina) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=October 14, 2026 6:33 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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