Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines

Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines

This map of Ostia details seventeen identified household and work-place shrines, all datable to the third century, meant for private devotion. These sites included distinct spaces meant for honoring household gods. Remember too that non-monumental domestic spaces were more easily lost to the archaeological record. The remains here must constitute only a fraction of what once constituted domestic devotional spaces in Ostia's heyday.

Doug Boin

Boin, Doug. Ostia in Late Antiquity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

2016

Doug Boin