Other Roman sites

Not every Roman monument fits a neat category. This page gathers the ones that do not: buildings that were unique in their town, or that belong to the last centuries of the Roman world rather than to its classical heyday. An honorary arch, for example, was a monumental gateway built to honour a person, a family or a victory.

In this atlas the Arch of the Sergii in Pula is the clearest case: a small, richly carved arch that a widow paid for in honour of her family, built against the inside of the town’s main gate in the reign of Augustus. The Euphrasian Basilica in Poreč belongs here too. It is a church, built in the 6th century by a bishop on the site of earlier churches that began in a house of the Roman town, and it is famous for the gold-ground mosaics of its apse. Both show how the Roman world carried on into forms that a single label does not capture.