Rome, Portus and Ostia on the Tabula Peutingeriana       OSTIA      HARBOUR CITY OF ANCIENT ROME
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. The site is maintained by the Internet Group Ostia.
What's new?

Tourist guide

For broadband visitors: a computer reconstruction

For those who understand Italian: a short movie of Ostia, with comments by the current director

[Getting started]
Introduction to Ostia
Ostia - A Mediterranean port
Ostia seen from the sky
The excavations
Visiting the ruins

[The archaeological remains]
Topographical dictionary
(descriptions of all buildings; topics)
Portus (the harbour district)
The necropolis of Portus
Virtual museum
Plans, reconstructions, engravings

[Ancient written sources]
Texts
Graffiti
Inscriptions

[Excavations and research]
Bibliography
Full-text books and articles
Research and researchers

[Varia Ostiensia]
Ostia related links
Fiction about Ostia

[The Soprintendenza]
Soprintendenza website

[Contact]
ostia remove @ this casema.nl
The group
The mailing list
Guestbook



This is a not-for-profit, scientific website. Downloading, printing, or duplicating in any way material on this website for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden.
Photographs are made available at the discretion of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia Antica. Those who wish to publish photographs should contact the Soprintendenza.
 
Streets in Ostia (B. Storage - L. Maish)

The lighthouse, two ships and a dolphin (B. Storage - L. Maish)

Grain measurers depicted in their guild seat (B. Storage - L. Maish)
 
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New publications about the Schola del Traiano and Tempio dei Fabri Navales in: B. Perrier, "Villas, maisons, sanctuaires et tombeaux tardo-républicains. Découvertes et relectures récentes", Actes du colloque international, Editions Quasar, Roma 2007. Pp. 540, with 417 ill. in color and b/w. € 90,00. ISBN 978-88-7140-350-9.


The best guide of Ostia has been updated: "Ostia", by Carlo Pavolini. Pp. 352, € 24,00, with ill. ISBN 8842077848. Guide archeologiche Laterza (2006). Available from BOL.