{"id":6506,"date":"2026-01-12T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/porta-laurentina\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:58:40","slug":"porta-laurentina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-dei-culti-orientali-e-il-quartiere-residenziale-di-porta-laurentina\/porta-laurentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Porta Laurentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gate in the Republican walls, built in around the mid-1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC, marks the entrance into the city from the Via Laurentina, an ancient road leading from\u00a0Laurentum<\/em>\u00a0(a town in Lazio south of Rome); the stretch of road inside the city was Ostia\u2019s Cardo Maximus.<\/p>\n

The gate\u2019s modern designation seems to be derived from the name\u00a0Laurentia<\/em>, known from Christian sources.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDrawing of the brickwork on the east side of the gate (O. Visca)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tReconstruction of the Republican wall circuit (A. Pascolini)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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The gate, consisting of a single room, was flanked by two square towers and had a facing of tufa blocks. On the south side the sockets for the wooden door can still be seen. In the Imperial period the western tower, having lost its original function, was used for the\u00a0taurobolia<\/em>\u00a0(ritual bull sacrifices) that took place in the nearby sanctuary of the Magna Mater.<\/p>\n

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General view of the gate<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The gate in the Republican walls, built in around the mid-1st\u00a0century BC, marks the entrance into the city from the Via Laurentina, an ancient road leading from\u00a0Laurentum\u00a0(a town in Lazio south of Rome); the stretch of road inside the city was Ostia\u2019s Cardo Maximus. The gate\u2019s modern designation seems to be derived from the name\u00a0Laurentia,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6476,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6506\/revisions\/6507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}