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Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia. [1] The archaeological remains of Portus are near the modern-day village of Porto within the comune of Fiumicino, Lazio, just southwest of ...
"The Isola Sacra Survey, Ostia, Portus and the port system of Imperial Rome", McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK, (226 p).
Classe was a commercial port located 4 km (2.5 mi) east south east from Ravenna, Italy. [1] It was near the head of the Adriatic coast. [2] For almost five hundred years it was an important strategic military port. When it was not being used as a military port, it was an important commercial port for the imperial capital of Ravenna in the Roman ...
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.
A great number of the inscriptions on the tombs suggest Graeco-Oriental origin. Scholars believe this is because Portus and Ostia were cosmopolitan towns where the bourgeois population was full of businessmen of non-Italian birth. [4] Latin, however, was the language that most townspeople used during the time that the necropolis was built.
The Forum Boarium was the site of the first gladiatorial contest at Rome which took place in 264 BC as part of aristocratic funerary ritual—a munus or funeral gift for the dead. Marcus and Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva put on a gladiatorial combat in honor of their deceased father with three pairs of gladiators.
A number of Roman ports were known as portus magnus ("grand port") : Portus Magnus, Spain: modern Almería; Portus Magnus, Algeria: modern Bethioua;
2 Imperial Roman curial titles and offices ... As the Imperial Roman Curia increased in number and assimilated all ... and comes Portus ("Count of the Port"). ...