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Arch of Alexander Severus
Arch of Alexander Severus at DouggaThe Arch of Alexander Severus is a Roman triumphal arch located in Dougga (Béja, Tunisia), ancient Thugga, which was dedicated to the Emperor Alexander Severus (222-235).The arch was built in 228, in gratitude to the emperor for his beneficence towards the city. It functioned as one of the city gates, at the end of a road linking to the road between Carthage and Tébessa.The preserved arch is the span of a single vault, about 4 metres wide, and lateral pylons with niches, which would have been framed by detached columns on tall plinths which are now lost (fluted pilasters remain at the rear). Only a single minor trace of the entablature remains, immediately above the blocks of the archway.The arch together with the other monuments of the archaeological site of Dougga, was included in the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1997[1]Jump up ^ Record on Dougga/Thugga on UNESCO's website.Bibliography[edit]M. C. Poinssot, Les ruines de Dougga, Tunis 1958, pp. 61 e 71Mustapha Khanoussi, Dougga, Agence de mise en valeur du patrimoine et de promotion culturelle, Tunis 2008, ISBN 978-9973-954-33-6, p. 58See also[edit]DouggaArch of Septimus Severus (Dougga)Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ancient Roman arches in Dougga.Coordinates: 36.4233°N 9.2168°ERoman Arches
Roman Arches List
- Arches of Augustus
- Arch of Augustus
- Arch of Alexander Severus
- Arch of Augustus at Aosta
- Arch of Augustus at Fano
- Arch of Augustus at Rimini
- Arch of Augustus at Susa
- Arch of Augustus at Susa
- Arch of Cabanes
- Arch of Campanus
- Arch of Caracalla at Thebesta
- Arch of Caracalla in Djemila
- Arch of Caracalla in Theveste
- Arches of Claudius
- Arch of Claudius
- Arch of Constantine
- Arch of Diocletian at Sbeitla
- Arch of Dolabella
- Arch of Drusus
- Arch of Galerius and Rotunda
- Arch of Gallienus
- Arch of Germanicus
- Arch of Gratian, Valentinian and Theodosius
- Arch of Hadrian Capua
- Arch of Hadrian in Jerash
- Arch of Hadrian
- Arch of Janus
- Arch of Lentulus and Crispinus
- Arch of Malborghetto
- Arch of Marcus Aurelius
- Arch of Nero
- Arch of Octavius
- Arch of Pietas
- Arch of Septimius Severus in Leptis Magna
- Arch of Septimius Severus
- Arch of the Sergii
- Arch of Tiberius
- Arch of Titus
- Arch of Titus at the Circus Maximus
- Arches of Trajan
- Arch of Trajan at Anacona
- Arch of Trajan at Benevento
- Arch of Trajan at Canosa
- Arch of Trajan at Thamugadi
- Arch of Trajan at Timgad
