The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard rooms, it was built between 271...
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clockwise): Porta Portuensis Porta Aurelia / San Pancrazio Porta Settimiana Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri (also known as Porta Cornelia) Porta Asinaria. A section...
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December 546, when his men scaled the walls at night and opened the Porta Asinaria. Procopius states that Totila was aided by some Isaurian troops from...
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abandoned Roman aqueduct. December 9 – Belisarius enters Rome through the Porta Asinaria, and the Gothic garrison of 4,000 men flees the city. He sends an urgent...
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Porta Asinaria Porta Aurelia Pancraziana Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri Porta Clausa Porta Flaminia Porta Latina Porta Praenestina Porta Metronia Porta Nomentana...
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Via Asinaria was an ancient Roman road that started from Porta Asinaria in the Aurelian walls (Rome). It was somehow connected with the Via Latina, as...
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The Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered...
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in different times nearby other important city gates (the Porta Salaria and the Porta Asinaria); they marked a kind of administrative border, where the...
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led to the definitive closure of the neighboring and more imposing Porta Asinaria, of Aurelian date, which was by the 1570s proving unable to sustain...
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The Porta Asinaria or Asinarian Gate, through which Totila entered Rome...
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