As a monument of applied arts, the exact date of their creation has remained open to speculation for centuries, with scholars attempting to determine the age of the doors and whether they are contemporaneous with the Pantheon.

Above the doors, on a wooden frame, sits a transom—six identical rectangular vertical bronze lattice panels with a simple and fairly common ancient pattern.

Some researchers of the Pantheon believed these doors to be genuinely ancient,[4][2] not stolen by conquerors, Eastern Emperors (with Constans II exporting bronze), or medieval Popes.

[4] Johann Joachim Winckelmann was also confident in the ancient age of the doors, as he stated in his work Storia dell’arte nell’antichità.

There is evidence that during restoration work on the Pantheon in 1759, the doors were repaired because they were damaged due to a fall during an attempt to remove them two years earlier, resulting in the death of the unfortunate master mason Corsini.