Maestranze sec. III a.C., Mura ciclopiche
CODES / CLASSIFICATION
106057
OBJECT
Mura ciclopiche
AUTHOR
Dating
sec. III a.C.
300 a.C. - 201 a.C.
LOCATIONS
Tarragona (Spagna)
RELATED ENTRIES
NOTES
Foto sup 2297, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "La puerta de San Anton in the cyclopean wall of Tarragona, / found in 1848 and repaired, is 8 feet 2 1/2 inches high and 4 feet / 10 inches wide. Its lintle is about 12 feet long by 4 feet high; / it is 3 feet in depth. / The stone of the cyclopean walls is of the ordinary late tertiary / or miocene shell rock, clay or calk, as the case maybe; the former / is very friable".
Foto sup 2310, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "The Roman wall en bossage with mason's marks, or letters, built on the top of the / remains of the cyclopean wall. To the right is the breach made by Suchet / in 1813".
Foto sup 2312, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "Postern in Cyclopean wall, Tarragona. / Called la Portella de San Anton, 8 feet high, 4/4 p. wide / and 20 ft. long". / Megalithic, Roman and Medieval work juxtaposited. / The Roma work, en bossage, is called in Spanish / "almohadillado"".
Foto sup 2471, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "Tarragona. / Cyclopean door, la puerta debajo de el Seminario, the / best of the 3 doors to be seen, for there are 2 others not to be got at. / Of the puerta del Rosario on the road to Tortosa and the least important / of the 3 there is not photograph. It was closed by a Roman aqueduct and / discovered in 1858; its gallery is 20 feet long...".
Foto sup 2310, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "The Roman wall en bossage with mason's marks, or letters, built on the top of the / remains of the cyclopean wall. To the right is the breach made by Suchet / in 1813".
Foto sup 2312, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "Postern in Cyclopean wall, Tarragona. / Called la Portella de San Anton, 8 feet high, 4/4 p. wide / and 20 ft. long". / Megalithic, Roman and Medieval work juxtaposited. / The Roma work, en bossage, is called in Spanish / "almohadillado"".
Foto sup 2471, verso del supporto secondario: nota anonima manoscritta: "Tarragona. / Cyclopean door, la puerta debajo de el Seminario, the / best of the 3 doors to be seen, for there are 2 others not to be got at. / Of the puerta del Rosario on the road to Tortosa and the least important / of the 3 there is not photograph. It was closed by a Roman aqueduct and / discovered in 1858; its gallery is 20 feet long...".
