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- Collection: Walls
Post-Herulian Walls, Athens
Post-Herulian Walls, Athens, 2017
Looking south to the Parthenon, from the Agora, which was largely destroyed in the Herulian sack of 267. The so-called Herulian walls, taking in a…
Tags: Agora, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Athens, Borders, Byzantium, Cities, Defense, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Greece, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Post-Herulian, roman empire, Urbanism, Wall, War
Post-Herulian Walls, Athens
Post-Herulian Walls, Athens, 2017
Remains of the Post-Heulian Walls show that they were constructed with numerous architectural blocks, including column drums from the Stoa of Attalos,…
Theodosian Walls, Istanbul
Theodosian Walls, Istanbul, 2016
The Theodosian Walls are arguably the most defining monument of Late Antiquity. Begun, perhaps, as a response to Honorius' renovation of the Aurelian…
Porta San Sebastiano, Rome
Porta San Sebastiano, Rome, 2016
The remains of the inner facade of Saint Sebastian's gate.
Aurelian Wall, Rome
Aurelian Wall, Rome, 2016
The largely intact remains of Honorius' early fifth-century enlargement of the Aurelian Wall.
Porta San Sebastiano
Porta San Sebastiano, Mike Yardley, 2016
Saint Sebastian's gate, as approached from the Appian Way.