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Temple of Portunus

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The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire By John W. Stamper · 2005

Roman Art Romulus to Constantine By Nancy H. Ramage, Andrew Ramage · 2009

British Architecture and Its Background By John Bowman Nellist · 1967 Page 22 ... One of the most beautiful of the smaller ones is the Temple of Portunus , in Rome ( Fig . 26 ) . Built in 31 B.C. , probably by Greek craftsmen , this represents a delightful relief from the more full - blown and grandiose Roman

The Civilization of Rome By Pierre Grimal · 1963

The Urban Image of Augustan Rome Volume 2 By Diane G. Favro · 1985

Tim Cornell, John Matthews (historian) The Roman World - Tim Cornell, ‎John Frederick Matthews · 1991

Classical Architecture By Robert Adam · 1991

Santa Maria Egiziaca

Many of the manuscripts from the San Biagio collection bear the stamp of Santa Maria Egiziaca in Rome, a church given to Armenian Catholics along with a guesthouse in the sixteenth century by Pope Pius V. Armenian Catholics found refuge at the church in the eighteenth century, after fleeing persecution in the Ottoman Empire; the books they bequeathed formed the core of the collection.

We have entered at more length into this subject than its importance may perhaps seem to demand, because the elegant remains of the temple now forming the Armenian church of S. Maria Egiziaca cannot fail to attract the notice of every admirer of classical antiquity that visits Rome...... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography_Volume_II.djvu/834

Another kind of artifacts, which are preserved in St. Nicolas of Tolentino Church, is the collection of tombstones. The collection’s history is linked with the history of the Armenian Catholic Church in Rome. In the past the Armenians in Rome were authorized by the pope to build a little church - San Lorenzo dei Cavallucci. Due to the enlargement of the Jewish ghetto, in which territories the Armenian Church was, San Lorenzo dei Cavallucci was deconsecrated. As compensation the Pope granted the Armenians the church of Santa Maria Egiziaca near which a hospice run by Armenian monks for Armenian pilgrims was built. After ordering a restoration, Pope Leo XIII granted the Armenian community the convent of San Nicola da Tolentino for a new seminary college. In 1921 Santa Maria Egiziaca was declared a Roman...

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image from 1760-1778 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1914-0216-110