Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Si Pola, Detail of Amphitheater,showing method for use ofAwning (Dunn). Pola, Detail of right pier ofColony Arch Plate xLviii ROMAN CITIES 293 yia.^ It cannot have been moved here from out-side the walls to preserve it, at the time of somebarbarian invasion. It was made to form theinner face of the court of this gateway. Onlyfrom old lithographs and prints can we under-stand this arrangement, for the ignorant arch-aeologist, who undertook the early restorationsat Pola, in 1826, thought the Augustan city gatewas medieval and tore it down. It must havebeen th

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Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Si Pola, Detail of Amphitheater,showing method for use ofAwning (Dunn). Pola, Detail of right pier ofColony Arch Plate xLviii ROMAN CITIES 293 yia.^ It cannot have been moved here from out-side the walls to preserve it, at the time of somebarbarian invasion. It was made to form theinner face of the court of this gateway. Onlyfrom old lithographs and prints can we under-stand this arrangement, for the ignorant arch-aeologist, who undertook the early restorationsat Pola, in 1826, thought the Augustan city gatewas medieval and tore it down. It must havebeen the Porta Praetoria of the original colony,and its keystone had the bust of the protectinggoddess of the city, whom the local archaeologistsdubbed ^linerva. Fortunately, several otherprimitive city gates remain: the simple, single-arched Porta Herculea, so-called from theyouthful, heroic head and greaves on the key-stone; the more architectural, double-archedPorta Gemina; and a small gatew^ay leading tothe Forum, or Capitolium, of the Augustan Porta Herculea is built with so extraordi-nary a diag

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