Hierapolis Frontinus Kapısı

The Frontinus Gate formed a monumental entrance to the Roman city of Hierapolis, now within the Pamukkale World Heritage Site in Denizli province. It was erected between 84 and 86 AD under Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman proconsul of Asia, as a triple-arched gateway built from carefully squared travertine blocks, its arches finished with simple cornice moulding and the whole structure flanked by two round towers. The gate opened directly onto the city's main colonnaded street, a thoroughfare roughly fourteen meters wide that ran the length of Hierapolis and continued toward the neighboring cities of Laodicea and Colossae in the Lycus valley. As one of the principal points of arrival into the ancient city, the Frontinus Gate remains one of the best-preserved monumental gateways at Hierapolis, and its association with a named, datable Roman official makes it an unusually precisely dated structure for the site.