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📷 SOO CHUL PARK · Pexels
Where in the world
Italy
The site
Ostia was the Roman port city at the mouth of the Tiber, occupied over many centuries from around 700 BCE. As Rome's harbour town it grew into a busy commercial hub, and its remains preserve the ordinary fabric of Roman urban life: apartment dwellings, bathhouses, a theatre and the wharves of a working port. The city's ruins offer a rare, grounded picture of how Romans lived and traded.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Roman
- types
- City
- built
- 700 BCE
- occupied
- 700 BCE — 800 CE
- country
- Italy
See it in 3D
Notable finds
Renowned pieces unearthed at Ostia — and where they are today
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Ostia
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Ennia Thrasylladied here1st century AD Roman noblewomanGC✶
Gaius Calpurnius Aviolaborn hereRoman consul suffectus in 24Pictured through the ages
Artworks that portray Ostia
Chronicle
What happened at Ostia
- 849 CEBattle of Ostia
