Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, PORTA AURELIA (1)

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PORTA AURELIA (1)

the modern Porta S. Pancrazio, a gate in the Aurelian wall on the summit of the Janiculum, through which the VIA AURELIA (q.v.) issued. The original name occurs in DMH and later documents (Eins. 7. i; Mirab. 4), but by the sixth century it was also called Pancratiana and Transtiberina (Procop. BG 18. 35; 23. 12; 28. 19) from the neighbouring church of S. Pancratius (Porta Aurelia, quae modo porta Sancti Pancratii dictum, GMU 88, R. ii. 408). The original structure¹ was replaced by Urban VIII in 1644 (Jord. i. I. 375; T ix. 465-466) and this, after being damaged in the siege of 1849, was removed, and the modern gate erected.

1 This is, of course, shown in all the plans and bird's-eye views of the city previous to 1644, but no detailed drawing of it is known.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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