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OSTIA RELATED LINKS |
| Ostia related links: ancient and mediaeval to modern. |
- General pages (ancient and medieval to modern)
- The website of modern Ostia Antica (by Mauro Ferrara).
- Historical pages about Ostia Antica and Lido di Ostia (by Roberto Gruppo).
- An excellent page about medieval Ostia (Gregoriopolis) (by Roberto Piperno).
- The Aeroporti di Roma offer excellent pages and photographs about Ostia, Portus, and the Isola Sacra.
- In Italy On Line offers a short introduction to Roman Ostia with text, photographs, and reconstruction drawings ('Now see what it looked like then').
- Iter conficere: pages about Ostia, Portus, the Isola Sacra, and the roads connecting the harbours with Rome (by Paul Sassine).
- A modern map of the area (you can zoom in to the level of single streets).
- Movies and newsreels
- A movie of Ostia, by Asso Marcati Internazionali (Italian).
- An impression of Ostia (3 min.), on the Dutch website of Mr. Kollum.
- A long movie of Ostia (10 min.), on the Dutch website of Mr. Kollum.
- A movie of Portus.
- Footage can be downloaded from British Pathe (Aerial shots taken in 1927; A visit by the mayor of London, Sir Rowland Blades, in 1927).
- Many newsreels of Ostia and the Isola Sacra necropolis, made by the Istituto Luce, can be viewed on-line. Most are from the 1930's, some are of a more recent date. Free registration. Search for "Ostia Antica".
- Photographs and postcards
- A large photo gallery, offered by Nicolas Bochinski.
- A large photo gallery, offered by René Seindal.
- A large photo gallery, offered by L.C. Curran.
- A large photo gallery, offered by Bill Storage.
- A photo gallery and panoramas of the theatre, offered by Alain Collet.
- Early 20th century postcards.
- Portus
- An excellent page about Portus (by Roberto Piperno).
- Another excellent page about Portus and its surroundings (in "Il Giardino di Venere e Roma").
- A page about the Basilica di Sant'Ippolito.
- R. Petriaggi, 'Il museo delle navi di Fiumicino', L'Archeologo Subacqueo 7, gennaio/aprile 1997.
- Philipp Schmitt, 'Das Museo delle Navi Romane in Fiumicino / Rom'.
- Tiber
- Earth Sciences for Archaeology (geoarchaeology; many case studies from the Tiber valley between Rome and Ostia).
- Notes on the landscape of Ostia and Portus before 1880 (1999; Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld).
- Roma e il suo fiume: storia e diffusione della moneta (with illustrations pertaining to Ostia and Portus).
- Maritime history and archaeology
- Navigare necesse est: a site about Roman maritime history, by Domenico Carro.
- NAVIS project
- Underwater archaeology: ASSONET (Archeologia Subacquea Speleologia Organizzazione NETwork).
- Other harbours
- Alexandria (Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines)
- Antium (Anzio)
- Aquileia
- Arelate (Arles)
- Caesarea Maritima
- Crete, Limenas Chersonisou
- Ephesus
- Forum Iulii (Fréjus)
- Kos
- Massilia (Marseille)
- Massilia (Marseille), The Museum of the Roman Docks
- Naples, Harbours in the Gulf of
- Narbo Martius (Narbonne)
- Portus Iulius and Misenum
- Puteoli (Pozzuoli)
- Tarraco