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<< Our Photo Pages >> Alatri Acropolis - Hillfort in Italy in Lazio/Roma

Submitted by beefree on Thursday, 04 June 2015  Page Views: 3599

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Alatri Acropolis Alternative Name: Alatri Polygonal Walls
Country: Italy
NOTE: This site is 9.02 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Lazio/Roma Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Frosinone  Nearest Village: Alatri
Latitude: 41.724661N  Longitude: 13.343495E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Alatri Acropolis
Alatri Acropolis submitted by beefree : Polygonal wall. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Lazio/Roma

The walls are made of several layers of polygonal megaliths, from the same hill and mated perfectly jointed without the use of lime or cement. With their perimeter describe a trapezoidal area of 19,000 square meters.

More information from ivanjohnson:
Alatri's acropolis features impressive well preserved cyclopean walls, with a maximum height of about 9 metres (30 ft), constructed of large (the largest about 3 by 2 m.) well jointed polygonal blocks of local limestone. The cyclopean walls are believed to date from sometime in the mid-to-late first millennium B.C.

Two entrances (of the perhaps five once existing) are still preserved which pass through the wall. The larger, known as Porta Maggiore with a 24-tonne lintel measuring 5 × 2 × 1.5m, and a smaller postern gate (Porta Minore) on the opposite side. There are no inscriptions.

The only mark left by the builders is a symbol on the lintel of the Porta Minore postern gate composed of three phalli arranged so as to form a T-shaped (or cross-shaped) image. Adjacent to the Porta Maggiore, at ground level, are three large niches (± 2m high and 1m wide); they have no apparent structural function and possibly held statues.

In ancient times there was a structure in the center of the acropolis on the site of the present day cathedral, possibly a temple or altar, of which only a small portion (its platform base) is preserved. Later, probably still in ancient times, a ramp was added on the northern side.

The area of the modern town is believed to have been settled as early as the 2nd millennium BC.

Ancient Aletrium was a town of the Hernici which, together with Veroli, Anagni and Ferentino, formed a defensive league against the Volsci and the Samnites around 550 BC. In 530 they allied with Tarquinius Superbus' Rome, confirming the Etruscan influence in the area attested also by archaeological findings. Alatri was defeated by Rome in 306 BC and forced to accept the citizenship. In Cicero's time it was a municipium (an ancient coat of arms can be seen with the initials "S.P.Q.A."), and continued in this position throughout the imperial period.
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Alatri Acropolis
Alatri Acropolis submitted by beefree : Porta Maggiore. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri - Porta Maggiore Alatri - Porta Maggiore Image copyright: mrc.loffredi (Marco Loffredi), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Acropoli di Alatri - Porta Maggiore Alatri - Porta Maggiore Image copyright: VinLuc83, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri - Porta Minore with triple phallus relief on lintel. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri Alatri - Porta Minore - note triple phallus relief on lintel. Image copyright: Cassandra Cumana (Simonetta Volpe), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri (Fr) - Enormi blocchi di pietra delle mura preromaniche dell'Acropoli (Megalithic walls) Alatri - large niches adjacent to Porta Maggiore. Alatri has well preserved fortifications constructed of tetrahedral and polygonal blocks of local limestone well jointed. It is almost entirely an embanking wall, as is the rule in the cities of this part of Italy, with a maximum height, probably, ...

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri, 16-04-2011 Alatri cyclopean wall. Image copyright: pietrosb1, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : "Scalinata Mura di Alatri" - Italy Iterior of Porta Maggiore Image copyright: JANICK and The Mountains of Might (LUCA CIPRIANI), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri (Fr) - I blocchi di pietra delle mura megalitiche dell'Acropoli (Megalithic walls) Alatri - large niche adjacent to Porta Maggiore. Costruzione ciclopica di epoca preromana, rappresenta, insieme alle mura urbiche, il monumento piu' antico e celebrato della Citta'. La sua ardita struttura di contenimento, caratterizzata da possenti muraglie in opera poligonale, racchiude per intero una...

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri, 16-04-2011 Alatri acropolis - remains of platform from possible ancient temple or altar. Image copyright: pietrosb1, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : Alatri - Panorama Alatri - rough top section of wall inside acropolis. Image copyright: Monica Galentino, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls
Alatri Acropolis & Cyclopean Walls submitted by ivanjohnson : pict0261 Alatri - rough top section of cyclopean wall inside acropolis. ACER Image copyright: dario.delia (Dario D'Elia), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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