(urth) Septimius Severus, Quadrifons

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 15:38:27 PDT 2011


Sorry if this have been brought up before.

Septimius Severus's triumphal arch in Leptis Magna (Libya) is an arcus 
quadrifons, i.e. a square with an arch in each side. I don't know whether 
such arches were normal or rare; another one is one that is tought to have 
been erected by Constantine, but for no known purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leptis_Magna_Arch_of_Septimus_Severus.jpg
http://www.livius.org/ro-rz/rome/rome_arch_janus.html




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