Porticus Octaviae

The Portico of Octavia (Latin portico Octaviae ) is a portico in Rome.

She went back to after 146 BC, built by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus portico Metelli. In its place was built 33-23 BC Augustus in the name of his sister Octavia a completely new construction. The complex also included a library and a Curia. In the years 80 and 203, the portico was damaged by fire, but rebuilt. It contained numerous sculptural works of art, including the first publicly issued statue of a Roman woman, namely the Gracchenmutter Cornelia, not less than 34 equestrian statues made ​​of bronze by Lysippos, Alexander the Great and his generals represented, and a figure group of Heliodorus.

The Portico of Octavia is located between the Circus Flaminius and the Theatre of Marcellus. She is pictured on the Forma Urbis. The portico enclosed a rectangular area; she was 119 m wide and about 132 m deep. Are preserved parts of the input on the southwest side and some pillars of the south side.

From about the 10th century, the expulsion of the Jews from Trastevere were transformed both the Portico of Octavia and the arches of the Marcellus in shops and workshops in the course; the portico itself was about until the time of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, mid-18th century, a fish market.

To the portico gradually gave rise to the Jewish Ghetto of Rome, from the Jews in the action on the night of the 15th to October 16th, 1943 1007 people were deported, of which only seventeen returned.