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Porta Aurelia

a Pleiades place resource

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A gate in the Aurelian Wall at the summit of the Ianiculum through which the Via Aurelia passes.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/732617291

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.8884375054, 12.46150556

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Porta San Pancrazio (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Porta Aurelia makes connections with:

Porta Aurelia part of (physical/topographic) Aurelian Walls (unspecified date range)
Porta Aurelia located at Roma (unspecified date range)

Porta Aurelia receives connections from:

None

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

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The modern Porta S. Pancrazio replaced the Porta Aurelia in 1644, under the patronage of Urban VIII. That structure was subsequently damaged and removed during the 1849 siege of Rome, at which time the present gate was erected.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Porta Aurelia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/732617291> [accessed: 22 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/732617291 |title=Places: 732617291 (Porta Aurelia) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 22, 2024 6:36 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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