(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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