- Porta San Sebastiano
Porta San Sebastiano is a gate in the
Aurelian Wall ofRome , through which theVia Ardeatina or, more generally, theVia Appia , leaves the city.Arch of Drusus
Porta San Sebastiano incorporates the so-called Arch of Drusus (or "Arco di Druso"), a marble decorated arch of the
Aqua Antoniniana aqueduct over the Via Appia, wrongly identified with the arch said by the sources to have been erected on the death ofNero Claudius Drusus (the father ofClaudius ) in9 BC . Its actual history is uncertain, but it could have been absorbed during the construction of the wall as the new Porta Appia (or "Porta San Sebastiano"). It is also possible that this same arch is the arch reported the medieval sources under the name of "arcus recordatiionis".Other 'arches of Drusus'
#built in honour of
Julius Caesar Drusus (son of Tiberius) in theForum Augustus in18 , in association with an arch in honor ofGermanicus
#to Julius Caesar Drusus, perhaps raised after his death either in 23 or 30, this time against theRostrum in theRoman Forum , in association with an arch dedicated to Tiberius - purely hypothetical.
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