ENTRANDO AD AQUILEIA: LA PORTA SETTENTRIONALE E L’ARCHITETTURA ELLENISTICA NELLA CISALPINA REPUBBLICANA

Abstract

The contribution deals with the study of the northern city gate of the fortified walls of the Latin colony of Aquileia, founded
in 181 BC. This opening was built along the republican wall and allowed the via Postumia to enter the city; it was excavated in
the Seventies of the nineteenth century by Austrian archaeologists and later in the Thirties of the last century by G. Brusin. The
discovery in the archive of the Museum of Aquileia of an unpublished, detailed plan of the first excavations and of the excavation
diaries of the most recent intervention allows to shed new light on the architectural features of the monument. Furthermore, the
examination of the building materials, construction techniques and dimensional characters indicate a probable decisive role of
Greek craftsmen in the design and construction of the urban gate. This confirms the relevance of the Hellenic workers in Aquileia
and in the Cisalpina region during the second century B.C.

Keywords: Aquileia, fortified walls, metrology, hellenization.