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The name Ostia (the plural of ostium) derives from Latin os 'mouth'. Ostia is now a large archaeological site noted for the excellent preservation of its ancient buildings, magnificent frescoes and impressive mosaics. The city's decline after antiquity led to harbor deterioration, marshy conditions, and reduced population.
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 Antica archaeological site, the port city of ancient Rome. With an area of 150 hectares, it is the largest archaeological park in the world. [ 10 ] Only 40% of the excavations have been completed, and more than half of the ancient city is still buried.
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.
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.
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.
Colosseum Archaeological Park • Palatine Hill • Roman Forum; Circus Maximus; Baths of Caracalla; Castel Sant'Angelo; Ostia Antica Archaeological Park; National Museum of Rome - A set of four museums in Rome displaying items discovered in Rome
It was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia. [1] The archaeological remains of Portus are near the modern-day village of Porto within the comune of Fiumicino, Lazio, just southwest of Rome. [2]