The chapel of Saint Aspreno at the Port (also called "of the Merchants" or "of the Dyers," from the artisans who lived in the neighborhood) is identified by its present name only since the seventeenth century. The apocryphal tradition that locates the saint's first home here dates from that period. The original structure, however, is much more ancient (earlier than the eighth century). The oratory is built out of a vaulted room that had belonged to a Roman bath. In 1895 the church was incorporated into the construction of the Palazzo della Borsa, and in the new atrium were placed sixteenth century columns that had belonged to the dismantled cloister of San Pietro ad Aram. Inside the church are preserved marble screens (ninth-tenth century), sculpted with Byzantine-style decorations, that carry Greek inscriptions with the names of a married couple, Campulus and Costanza. They have been identified with the builders of the chapel, but were most likely only the sponsors of a renovation.

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