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When the sun rose over the marble gate, I could see the guards, sluggish in the morning heat, desert their posts and stagger toward the woods just out of town.
The gate was also called Marmaroporta (Μαρμαροπόρτα, "Marble Gate"), because it was covered in marble, and featured a statue of the Emperor Julian.
It combines architectural drawings, vintage photographs, and early maps with marble busts, wrought-iron gates, and a huge stained-glass window — all the better to express the diversity of cemetery enterprise.
It combines architectural drawings, vintage photographs, and early maps with marble busts, wrought-iron gates, and a huge stained-glass window all the better to express the diversity of cemetery enterprise.
Next to them, the controversial British memorial, a dark marble copy of the gate, will arise.
The "Hadrian Gate," a marble portal of three identical arches, was built to commemorate a visit by the emperor Hadrian in 130 ce.
The first went to the Russian walker Valeriy Borchin, who added the world 20-kilometer title to last year's Olympic title in a race that ended at the Brandenburg Gate, the marble landmark that was once a damaged symbol of divided Berlin.
On a bright January morning, the view through the floor-to-ceiling windows of sunlight tickling the spires of the Duomo was reflected in the polished white marble floor, brighter than the gates of heaven.
