Alan H's photos
Thermopolium
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The marble counter of the thermopolium where food and hot drinks could be purchased - an ancient fast-food outlet!
House of Diana
Floor Tiles
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Showing a herring-bone pattern of floor tiles very common in Ostia (and elsewhere in the Roman world).
Painted Wall Plaster
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The Severan painting from the first floor of the House of Diana, now in a ground-floor room.
Ostia Antica.
Via dei Balconi
Upper Floor Window
Via dei Balconi
Inscription
Baker's Shop
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Shop belonging to one of Ostia's bakers showing the millstones for grinding the corn. Wooden shafts were inserted into the holes in the top part of the millstones. They were then tethered to donkeys who would walk in an endless circle so turning the millstone.
Castrum Walls
Road Sign
House of Apuleius
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View towards the atrium. There were eight columns, some of which can be seen here, which surrounded an impluvium and fountain.
Ostia Antica
Temple of Ceres
Fish, Amphora and Palm Mosaic
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Two date-palms, an amphora with the initials MC and three fish.
This represents traders from Mauretania Caesariensis (Algeria).
In the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in Ostia Antica.
Ship Mosaic
Inscription
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In the Piazzale delle Corporazioni, Ostia Antica and dedicated to Marcus Junius Faustus:
M IVNIO M FIL(IO) PAL(ATINA)
FAVSTO
DECVRIONI ADLECTO
FLAMINI DIVI TITI DVVMVIRO
MERCATORI FRVMENTARIO
Q(VAESTORI) AERARI FLAMINI ROMAE
ET AVG(VSTI) PATRONO COR[P(ORIS)]
CVRATORVM NAVIVM MARINAR(VM)
DOMINI NAVIVM AFRARVM
VNIVERSARVM ITEM
SARDORVM
L(OCVS) D(ATVS) D(ECRETO) D(ECVRIONVM) P(VBLICE)
"To Marcus Junius Faustus, son of Marcus, of the Palatina voting tribe , decurion select, priest (local) of the divine Titus, duumvir, wheat merchant, quaestor of the treasury, a priest of Rome and Augustus, patron of the body of guardians of maritime vessels, the owner of ships sailing across Africa ...
Site provided by decree of the decurions "
Ostia, CIL, XIV, 4142
Ship Mosaic
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The mosaic for the office of the Naviculari Turritani (shipowners from Port Torres in Sardinia - Turris Libyssonis in Roman times). In the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in Ostia.
