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Sepulchral Portal: Gates of Life and Death

ARCHITECTURAL r3r · p.260
Sepulchral Portal: Gates of Life and Death
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Full-page monument: architectural portal with eagle pediment, inscription D.DITI ET PROSER. Two gates below.

In the Narrative

The portal of Dis and Proserpina, with the narrow gates of life and death. This is the Polyandrion's culminating monument.

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