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PORTUS CORNELI(I)—PORTUS VINARIUS 431
iii. 2786-2787.) A relief on the arch of Trajan at Beneventum seems to
represent Portunus and other gods at the portus Tiberinus (OJ 1899,
182-183 ; S. Sculp. 217 ; SScR 194).
This temple, among others, has been identified with the ancient
circular temple (Ill. 43), which was occupied by the church of S. Stephanus
Rotundus (1140), S. Stefano delle Carrozze (sixteenth century), and was
later called S. Maria del Sole, in the Piazza Bocca della Verita (DAP 2. vi.
263; HJ 143; Mitt. 1925, 321-350). It is built of white marble, the blocks
of the cella being solid, with a peristyle of twenty Corinthian columns.
The cella is 10 metres in diameter and stands on a podium of tufa, 2 metres
high, in the centre of which is a favissa (LR 518-520) which belongs to
the period of the republic,1 although the marble covering and the whole
superstructure date from the early empire.2 The entablature is missing,
and the roof is modern. On the whole this identification is more probable
than any other that has been suggested,3 but far from certain (Jord. i. 2.
485 ; Altm. 22-30, 33-36 ; ZA 248-251 (whose attribution to the period
of Severus is doubtful). See D’Esp. Fr. i. 40-43 ; DuP 72 ; TF 136).3
Portus Corneli(i) : a warehouse (cf. Portus Licini) for the storage of brick,
named after some Cornelius, and known only from its probable occurrence
on an inscribed tile of 123 a.d. (NS 1892, 347 ; Mitt. 1893, 260).
Portus Licini(i) : a warehouse, named after some unknown Licinius and used
for the storage of bricks ‘ ex praediis M. Aur. Antonini,’ mentioned on
numerous inscribed tiles of the time of Severus (CIL xv. 408), and later
(Cassiod. Var. i. 25). There is no indication of its location, and portus
in this sense (cf. P. Corneli(i), Parrae, etc.) had no necessary connection
with the river (cf. the definition in Ulpian (Dig. 1. 16. 59 : portus appellatus
est conclusus locus quo importantur merces et inde exportantur ; and
CIL xv. pp. 37, 121 ; BC 1878, 42-43 ; EE ii. p. 434 ; Pr. Reg. 103 ;
HJ 175).
Portus Neapolitanus : mentioned only in a graffito found in the cata-
combs of S. Sebastiano as a brick warehouse (CIL xv. 6123 ; Mitt. 1886,
188). Its situation is quite uncertain.
Portus Parrae : a warehouse for bricks known only from its occurrence
on inscribed tiles of the time of Hadrian (CIL xv. 409-412).
Portus Tiberinus : see Portunium.
Portus Vinarius : a wine warehouse mentioned in three inscriptions,
without topographical indications (CIL vi. 9189, 9190 ; AJP 1910, 35).
1 One column is missing. For a plan and section of the foundations, see De Angelis,
Relazione 1899-1902, 106, 107 ; and for the view that the podium is of an earlier date
than the rest, see also Mitt. 1892, 108 ; 1893, 293. For the entasis, see Mem. Am. Acad,
iv. 122, 142.
2 So Jahrb. d. Inst. 1921, 68 ; Ath. Mitt. 1914, 25.
3 Delbruck (Hellenistische Bauten, ii. 43) identifies it with the temple of Hercules
erected about 130 b.c. by Aemilius Paullus (p. 257). Cf. also Sol et Luna, aedes.
 
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