Arch of Janus

Date: early 4th century CE
Image View Description: Exterior: View from South
Creator: Constantine, Emperor of Rome (Ancient Roman emperor, 285-337 CE)
Material/Technique: marble
, Material/Technique: brick
, Material/Technique: concrete
Work Type: architecture
Style/Period: Imperial Roman
Style/Period 2: Late Antique
Culture: Ancient Roman
Subject: Triumphal arches
Location: Rome (Italy)
Notes: In the Forum Boarium, strides the great drain (Cloaca Maxima); not dedicated to Janus, but possibly an ‘arch of the deified Constantine’; only quadrifrons triumphal arch surviving in Rome
Image Source: Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History, Columbia University
Photographer: Gina Ciancone
Record ID: 1213_rome2012_archofjanus_vr_003


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