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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 .
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.
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The Temple of Janus stood in the Roman Forum near the Basilica Aemilia, along the Argiletum. It was a small temple with a statue of Janus , the two-faced god of boundaries and beginnings inside. Its doors were known as the "Gates of Janus", which were closed in times of peace and opened in times of war.
Today, Trajan's Column is the most prominent architectural feature of Trajan's Forum, left nearly intact but now isolated from its original setting. The column was placed toward the northernmost point of the forum, acting as the focal point of the entire forum complex. It was surrounded on three sides by two flanking libraries and the Basilica ...
Portunus was the ancient Roman god of keys, doors, livestock and ports. He may have originally protected the warehouses where grain was stored, but later became associated with ports, perhaps because of folk associations between porta "gate, door" and portus "harbor", the "gateway" to the sea, or because of an expansion in the meaning of portus ...
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The Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento was a famous Greek example of this style. Its facade also has engaged columns. A pseudoperipteral building with a portico at each end is an amphiprostyle. Examples include the small Temple of Athena Nike and Temple of Venus and Roma.