<p>Augustan portico named after its gallery of ‘ethnic’ statues (Servius, <i>ad Aen.</i> 8.721), near which stood a statue of the Punic Hercules (Pliny, <i>NH</i> 36.39). Pliny clearly differentiates this group from a similar presentation of 14 ethnic statues set up by Coponius <i>circa Pompeium</i>, ‘around the Pompeian [theater]’, to commemorate the nations conquered by Pompey (<i>NH</i> 36.41; cf. Suet., <i>Nero</i> 46.1). Coarelli equates the Porticus ad Nationes with the <i>porticus Lentulorum</i> (established, perhaps, by P. Lentulus and Cn. Lentulus, consuls of 18 B.C.), which he argues is the official name of the *Hecatostylum, a hundred-columned structure near the *Theatrum Pompeium, which extended along the N side of the *Porticus Pompeianae to the NE corner of the *“Area Sacra” of Largo Argentina. Inscription fragments found S of the easternmost section of the Hecatostylum provide evidence of an Augustan inscribed statue base, which may have supported a group of Julio-Claudian portrait-statues including Augustus and Gaius Caesar, perhaps placed just N of *Temple A in an area that Alföldy, following Coarelli (1981), identifies as the Porticus ad Nationes.</p> <p><i>Addendum</i></p> <p>P. Liverani, s.v. “Porticus ad Nationes,” <i>LTUR</i> V, 286 (questions current identifications by adopting Castagnoli's different reading of Pliny, <i>NH</i> 36.39).</p> <p>S. Orlandi, s.v. “Porticus Lentulorum,” <i>LTUR</i> VI, 9 (discusses a construction date somewhat later in the Augustan period, <i>c</i>. 7 B.C.</p>