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«Questa è la città di Augusto». Archi e processioni a Leptis Magna

2020

A recent study on the Trajan's arch at Leptis Magna mentions a second arch of Tiberius, along a street which runs parallel to the main cardo, where the more famous “twin” of this arch is located. The study also mentions a structure, an arch as well, posed at the same place where the tetrapyle of Trajan was erected. These three arches mark the three vertices of a quadrilateral of streets involving the main places of the public consent through the Imperial House. It is not a case that this predecessor of the Trajan's arch lies on the crossway among the main cardo and a way with goes to the street that separes the Theatre, the fourth vertex of the quadrilateral, from the porticus post scaenam.…