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Visual depiction of Portunus

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Vol. II · Polytheism · earth

Portunus

Roman god of doors and harbors


holding a large key and a ship's rudder, guardian of every threshold where land meets sea and home meets world

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
earth

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.