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PORTUNUS, or PORTUMNUS

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 169 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORTUNUS, or PORTUMNUS , in Roman mythology, originally the god of
gates
  and doors (Lat. porta), and as such identified with Janus and represented with a key in his hand. Gradually he came to be recognized as a
separate
  deity, who protected the harbours (
portus
 ) and ensured a safe return to seafarers. (Cicero, Nat. dear. ii. 26; Virgil, Aen. v. 241). With the introduction of the
Greek
  gods, he became merged in Palaemon-
Melicertes
 . He had a
special
  priest (flamen portunalis) and temples on the Tiber near the Aemilian
bridge
  and near Ostia, where a festival was celebrated in his honour on the 17th of August. Mommsen unhesitatingly identifies
Portunus
  with the river-god Tiberinus, from the fact that the festival is also called Tiberinalia in the
fasti
  of Philocalus; Marquardt regards him rather as the tutelary deity of warehouses.
See J. Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung (1885), iii. 327,
note
  To.


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