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The Temple of Portunus (Italian: Tempio di Portuno) is an ancient Roman temple in Rome, Italy. It was built beside the Forum Boarium , the Roman cattle market associated with Hercules , which was adjacent to Rome's oldest river port ( Portus Tiberinus ) and the oldest stone bridge across the Tiber River , the Pons Aemilius .
Piazza Bocca della Verità: the Temple of Hercules Victor and the Temple of Portunus The fountain in front of the two temples, called Fountain of the Tritons , realised by Carlo Bizzaccheri under commission of Pope Clement XI , was erected in the square in 1715; it has an octagonal basis and portrays two tritons supporting a shell from which ...
The Temple of Portunus is a rectangular building built between 100 and 80 BC. [4] It consists of a tetrastyle portico and cella mounted on a podium reached by a flight of steps. The four Ionic columns of the portico are free-standing, while the six columns on the long sides and four columns at the rear are engaged along the walls of the cella.
Omschrijving: Details van de Tempel van Portunus te Rome (op prent aangeduid als Tempel van Fortuna Virilis): een gedeelte van de kroonlijst en verschillende aangezichten van het kapiteel van een Ionische zuil. Titel midden boven.
Pantheon or Temple to All The Gods, unique among Roman temples, but later much imitated. Easily the most impressive and complete interior to survive. Temple of Hercules Victor, early circular temple, largely complete; Temple of Portunus or "Temple of Fortuna Virilis" – very complete Ionic exterior, near Santa Maria in Cosmedin and the Temple ...
Largo di Torre Argentina cats. The Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary is located in Temple D of the Largo di Torre Argentina. The cat shelter was founded in 1993 and offers sterilization and adoption programs that house an estimated 350 cats.
The portico of the Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot (England) Temple diagram with location of the pronaos highlighted. A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
Valerius Maximus refers to the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX in book 1,8,4. Plutarch is another source to mention the Temple of Fortuna Virilis, which he says was founded by Servius Tullius. [3]