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The Museo Archeologico Ostiense (or Archaeological Museum of Ostia) is an archaeological museum dedicated to the ancient Roman city of Ostia in Rome, Italy. The museum was built by Pope Pius IX, who in 1865 had to readapt a fifteenth-century building used as a store to create a city museum. Contained in the museum are numerous archaeological ...
Ostia may have been Rome's first colonia.According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, [4] was the first to destroy Ficana, an ancient town that was only 17 km (11 mi) from Rome and had a small harbour on the Tiber, and then proceeded with establishing the new colony 10 km (6 mi) further west and closer to the sea coast.
The Ostia quarter is an active seaside resort, the official seaside resort of the city of Rome, equipped with beaches, dedicated facilities, restaurants, hotels and points of interest. Ostia, due to its historical roots and its natural characteristics, is an important tourist location. It is known and famous, as it was at its origins when it ...
The Ostia Synagogue is an ancient former Jewish synagogue and archaeological site, located in ancient Ostia, the seaport of Imperial Rome, in modern-day Lazio, in Italy.It is one of the oldest synagogues in the world, the oldest synagogue in Europe and the oldest mainstream Jewish synagogue yet uncovered outside the Land of Israel.
Articles relating to the city of Ostia Antica. It was an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is located near modern Ostia, 25 km (16 mi)) southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies 3 km (2 mi) from the sea.
Mosaic of Triton and a Nereid, Baths of Buticosus. This small bathhouse (I, XIV, 8) was constructed during the reign of Trajan circa 110 C.E. and remodeled in the middle of the second century C.E. [19] This bath is typical of many of the balnea in Ostia, where the rooms are built into the established city grid leading to a chaotic interior layout often without a palaestra.
The Castra Peregrina ("camp of the strangers") was a castrum (a military barracks) in Rome situated on the Caelian Hill. [1] It was occupied by various military units during the later part of the Roman Empire .
Squarciapino became an inspector at the Soprintendenza for Ostia in 1946, where she worked closely with Italo Gismondi, Giovanni Becatti, Herbert Bloch and others. [3] After the publication of the excavations of the Ostian necropolis in 1959, she turned her attention to the Ostia Synagogue, where she directed excavations in 1961–62.