This website is dedicated to Ostia, the harbour city of ancient Rome. Here you will find information for professional archaeologists and historians, for students of Roman archaeology and history, and for interested lay-people.
This is a not-for-profit, scientific website. Downloading, printing, or duplicating in any way material on this website for commercial purposes is forbidden. Photographs are made available at the discretion of the Soprintendenza. Those who wish to publish photographs should contact the Soprintendenza.
L.B. van der Meer: "Ostia Speaks. Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port". Peeters Publishers, Leuven 2012. ISBN: 978-90-429-2700-1. 27 euro.
The best guide of Ostia has been updated: "Ostia", by Carlo Pavolini. Pp. 352, € 24,00, with ill. ISBN 8842077848. Guide archeologiche Laterza (2006).
