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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.
Temple of Portunus in the Forum Boarium According to the poet Ovid , Fortuna Virilis had the power to conceal the physical imperfections of women from the eyes of men. [ 2 ] During the Veneralia, she receives an offering of incense, while the more elaborate ceremonies are devoted to Venus.
Temple of Hercules Victor, early circular temple, largely complete; Nymphaeum often called (erroneously) the Temple of Minerva Medica; Temple of Portunus (formerly called the Temple of Fortuna Virilis), near Santa Maria in Cosmedin and the Temple of Hercules Victor; Temple of Romulus, very complete circular exterior, early 4th century – Roman ...
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 ...
Second Regular Session Sixty-eighth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO PREAMENDED This Unofficial Version Includes Committee Amendments Not Yet Adopted on Second Reading
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 ...
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 ...