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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
PORTA TIBURTINA
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PORTA TIBURTINA
a gate in the Aurelian wall (III. 44), by which the VIA
TIBURTINA (q.v.) left the city (DMH). In the eighth century it was known
as Porta S. Laurentii, because it led to the church of that name (GMU 88;
R ii. 406). There seems to be no trace in the present gate of any work
by Aurelian, who may have simply restricted himself to flanking with two
towers the arch by which the aquae Marcia, Tepula and Iulia crossed the
road. This was rebuilt by Augustus in 5 B.C., and also bears inscriptions
of Vespasian and Septimius Severus, relating to the aqueducts (CIL vi.
1244-1246). From the bull's head on the keystone of the arch came the
name porta Taurina, which we find in the Liber Pontificalis in the lives
of Alexander I (LPD i. 127) and Anastasius I (ib. 258) as well as in the
Mirabilia (Jord. ii. 319-328); while Magister Gregorius (JRS 1919, 20,
46) gives both porta Tiburtina and porta Aquileia, que nunc Sancti
Laurentii dicitur, in his list.
The gate was restored by Honor
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)