Hadrians Door: who or what was this for?

[anadentone]

This door is a recasting of a Hadrian's door cast from bronze dating from 115 AD.

Now the door's design reminds me of Victorian doors.

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My question is, what on Earth did they have in AD Rome that would fit inside that door. Giving that the average white woman is 5ft6-ish, that door is 4 times her height. If not giants, then what's big enough to fit thru that door yet small enough to roam around the building comfortably?

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[JWW427]

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I can't think of a more impressive door in the world given its assumed age.
And I can't think of anything bigger made of metal built by the suspect Romans either. Perhaps the door is a clue to the genuine builders of the Pantheon, and its intended visitors.
JWW

There are many legends of Roman legions fighting red-haired giants. Nephilim?

 

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Date: 2019-10-01 18:35:31
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giants duh

Giants of Hyperborea

 

[HollyHoly]

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well I dunno because the Romans were weird people they had some extreme ritualistic conventions ,maybe it was for Elephants in regalia or If giants were around that were that tall it seems we or they would have noticed, The fact that they're bronze is kinda mind boggling that's heavy and opening and shutting would require quite balanced yet sturdy hinges which are the weakest part of a door. I'm always amazed at how much discardable ostentatious abundant resources the past had and now everything is plastic paper drywall plywood etc . Seems someone decided at some point we can't have anything nice.

 

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I wonder if there was a plasma blast, magnetic low or EMP or something that caused the memory loss and reset.
I wonder if some survivors went crazy or primal. Hence the prisons and asylums. Hence the Giants reverting to cannibalism, when we have other instances of them buried with honor and regalia. And on several different continents.
And hence the ability to reorder an entire world.

 

[JWW427]

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And after The Great Flood of 10,500 BC. (Estimated date as "Meltwater Pulse 1-B" in geology circles).
Prisons, slavery, asylums, banks, money, churches, religions. It still drives us mad. The ancients may have fallen in vibration and were easier to control by the new PTB during that era. People may have shrunk in height, their consciousness powers reduced to rubble.
I have a funny feeling the Pantheon might be Prediluvian and part of the eastern Atlantean empire. Much of Rome might be too.

There is a wild story that President Abe Lincoln viewed one of those giants in a stasis chamber cave in Illinois with local illuminati PTB, I believe. The chambers were bubbles that were "Out of time" and reduced aging. Abe carved his name on the wall of the cave.
JWW

 

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What is the factual basis for this age?

For them...

 

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What is the factual basis for this age?

For them...

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Korben, how do u stumble on all these great recent giant pics from the 18th early 19th century? Amazing really. It does make a lot of sense and explains those huge door sizes i saw everywhere in northern italy.

 

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Korben, how do u stumble on all these great recent giant pics from the 18th early 19th century? Amazing really. It does make a lot of sense and explains those huge door sizes i saw everywhere in northern italy.

LOL. I reverse google related images, and google gives out a bunch of suggestions.

• Drop off point.

 

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LOL. I reverse google related images, and google gives out a bunch of suggestions.

• Drop off point.

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Try yandex. For certain images I’ve found they turn up way more accurate and higher quality options.

 

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LOL. I reverse google related images, and google gives out a bunch of suggestions.

• Drop off point.

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If that couple was eight feet tall, that puts the "normal" people at 4-5 feet tall. Must've been more discrepancy in sizes back then.

 

[HollyHoly]

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If that couple was eight feet tall, that puts the "normal" people at 4-5 feet tall. Must've been more discrepancy in sizes back then.

that's what I was thinking the proportions are all wrong as well

 

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Elephants? Or was that Hannibal?...
I love it when a plan comes together.

 

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I found this, no I didn't Gibiru found this; Disclaimer - Electronic Collection
On his third trip to retrieve Anna, Barnum’s scout, Judge H.P. Ingalls, was successful. This time she accepted a trip to New York to see the museum and talk to Barnum. In 1862, 17-year-old Anna, her mother, and her father went to New York, leaving Anna’s brothers and sisters in the care of relatives.

Is she a different giantess to the one above in 1849?
Some photographs.

Gibiru search string barnums american museum giantess also found this source

And this article about here; Hardy, Sylvia., Miss Sylvia Hardy, the Maine Giantess. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

And here's the four items they have in the giants category; Search results | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections
So there were at least two of these big ladies.

Big bronze doors are a thing in Rome. Here's another massive pair.
Basilica San Giovanni di Laterano

And there' more! Not as big but way bigger than the bloke in the frock. From here; Cathedrals around world throw open Holy Doors on orders of Pope

An interesting listing from a geographical point of view. 60 Centuries of Copper: The Great Mediaeval Bronze Doors

On the Continent there are many striking and splendid reminders of the permanence of copper and bronze in the fine arts, especially from the Renaissance period onwards. Italy is full of examples, embracing the whole of the 15th and 16th Centuries, when the native genius for art, under the protection of the powerful Dukes, the City States, and particularly the Papacy, flourished then as it has never done before or since. Of particular note are the many fine architectural remains which include a considerable number of magnificent sculptured bronze doors. In some cases their design can be traced back to the Imperial days of the Pantheon which possesses the oldest surviving bronze doors in the world. These were erected by Hadrian in A.D. 164, and are truly gigantic, being 39 ft high and 19 ft wide overall. They hang upon fluted bronze pilasters; and above them, in the ceiling of the portico, is an ancient bronze grating, just as it was erected 1800 years ago. On either side of this grand doorway stood colossal bronze statues of Augustus and Agrippa.


Similar designs were adopted in many of the larger Italian churches throughout the succeeding centuries. Florence has a number of examples, including some of the most famous of all, the three pairs of doors in the Baptistry. The South Door, which was designed by Andrea Pisano, was erected in 1336; its twenty-eight compartments show in relief events in the life of St. John the Baptist. The North Door, which also has twenty-eight panels, was mainly executed by Ghiberti between 1403 and 1424; while the celebrated East Door, the work of the same sculptor and only completed in his extreme old age, has rich reliefs of biblical subjects (Fig. 17). It was erected in 1452.
Rome also possesses some magnificent mediaeval bronze doors, Those of the Lateran Basilica, which was originally built by Constantine the Great, were taken from the Senate House. They were adapted for their new position by fitting a strip of bronze to each edge; but in all other respects they are reported to be unchanged. The three bronze doors in the main entrance to St. Peter's at Rome, which are embellished with a curious admixture of biblical and political subjects, were cast by A. Filarete and S. Ghini in 1445. Great new doors of bronze are now being made for St. Peter's at Rome.


There are in the north of Italy 9th Century bronze doors in the famous Basilica of Saint Ambrogio at Milan, and others may be seen in Pisa Cathedral (A.D. 1180), the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle (A.D. 804); and several pairs still exist in the Basilica of St. Mark and the Baptistry at Venice. One of the latter, which was damascened in silver, is the oldest of its type in Europe. The Sacristy of the even more famous Basilica Ostiensis at Rome has silvered bronze doors which were cast by Staurakios at Constantinople in A.D. 1070; they contain fifty-four panels illustrating scenes from the New Testament.

 

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This one is in Lisbon.

Weird height of the door handles and key ways on these, unless they were done for bigger individuals.

 

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duckduckgo found these;