The Porta Salaria, or Sabine Gate, 1833 (etching with brown wash)

Porte Salare ou Sabine; Engraved by Pietro Fontana (1762-1837); from 'Recueil des vues au bister dessinees et lavees par Callimachus, Souvenirs d'antiquites et curiosites de Rome et des environs, Deblayements et reparations du Pape Pie VII'; Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) Papacy (1800-23) Count Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; The Via Salaria leaves Rome at Piazza Fiume, on the site of the Roman Porta Salaria; It takes its name from the salt trade between the Romans and the Sabines; The Aurelian Wall was built during the rules of Aurelian (270-75) & Probus (276-82); It was raised to twice its height under Maxentius (306-12);