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OSTIA NEW ON THE WEBSITE |
| Recent additions and improvements. |
May 2010March 2010
- We updated the bibliography.
January 2010
- We added a link to a lecture about Ostia by prof. Diana Kleiner at Yale University.
October 2009
- We moved to a new provider, fatcow.com. The move started on December 18 2009.
May 2009
- We updated the bibliography.
March 2009
- We added a clickable plan of the harbour of Claudius to the website, and added many old photographs to the descriptions of the buildings in Portus.
- We added a clickable plan of the north part of the Isola Sacra to the website.
- We added a clickable plan of Trajan's harbour in Portus to the website, accompanied by a text-menu (main entry: Portus). The plan that we chose was made by Italo Gismondi and published by Lugli in 1935. We added short descriptions of many buildings and improved the descriptions of buildings that were already online. The ruins of Portus are mostly covered by earth today, after centuries of what we would call today plundering. It is extremely difficult to understand the site, and we hope that the clickable plan will make it a bit easier for you. Clickable plans will be added in the near future for the basin of Claudius and the north part of the Isola Sacra. We will keep consulting the recent publications by the Soprintendenza and the Portus Project, and summarize the results for you. Use Google Earth to get an idea of the tremendous challenge that the Soprintendenza is facing. Portus is "in the shade" of Leonardo da Vinci airport and "strangled" by roads, highways and railways. It is virtually impossible to visit the site on foot. There have been successful protection orders by the Italian State, but part of the site is still private property of the Torlonia family, part of it is rather unprotected. For an analysis of the current situation see especially Lidia Paroli writing in Keay 2005, p. 56.
February 2009
- We started a page about the Isola Sacra-project, that analyzes bones and teeth found at the Isola Sacra necropolis. Many titles and summaries will be added.
- To the Topographical Dictionary we added the topic The paintings: an ancient showroom.
- We updated the bibliography.
- On the page "Full-text books and articles" we added a link to: Milton Luiz Torres, Christian burial practices at Ostia Antica: backgrounds and contexts with a case study of the Pianabella Basilica (The University of Texas at Austin 2008).