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JOBST Werner
Das Heidentor von Carnuntum

Ein spätantikes Triumphalmonument am Donaulimes
Year of publication: 2001
Publisher: VÖAW
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304 Seiten, zahlreiche Farb- und SW-Abb., 3 Faltpläne, 1 Planbeilage, 31x24cm, broschiert,


ISBN10: 3-7001-2973-4
ISBN13: 978-3-7001-2973-8

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€ 72,20

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Alongside the Willendorf Venus,no ancient monument has achieved such a degree of fame as the Heathens ’ Gate at Carnuntum.And nevertheless,this monument of Roman antiquity is full of riddles and secrets. The character image of the ruin as a gateway arch results from its long period of decay.Since the huma- nism of the Renaissance,generation after generation has attempted to reveal the secret of the Heathens ’Gate by interpreting sources,investigating the building and undertaking excavations.The site has been visited frequently by travellers in search of education,by scholars and by artists,and has been recorded in descriptions,drawings,watercolours and copper engravings.Thus today we know that the Heathens ’ Gate is precisely not a gateway in the sense of a town gate or a single-gate triumphal arch, but is an antique quadriphronium or tetrapylum (double-passage arch, in Greek tetrápylon), i.e.a building on four pillars with four passageways. This work is initially a collection, analysis and evaluation of all the available sources on the Heathens’ Gate, i.e. views, descriptions, legends, attempts to reconstruct and explain. In addition, before the conservation measures are started, it is necessary for experts on antique building research to examine in detail the architecture.

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