the Portico of the Consentes Dii he Consentes Dii are the Roman version of the Athenian Twelve Gods, the twelve supreme gods. Their gilt statues stood in the Forum, later apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. A porticus is a roof, supported by columns at a regular interval, usually attached as porch to a building.
As there were six male and six female, they may well have been the twelve worshipped at the lectisternium of 217 BC, Jupiter and Juno, Neptune and Minerva, Mars and Venus, Apollo and Diana, Volcanus and Vesta, Mercury and Ceres. A lectisternium is a banquet of the gods, where the statues of the gods were put upon cushions, and where these statues were offered meals.
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