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Mary Harrsch, Theatre Mask in Architecture at Ostia, 14 March 2009

Tags: Architecture, City, Comedy, Costume, Culture, Decoration, Italy, late antique, Mask, Ornate, Ostia, Performance, roman empire, Rome, Stone, Theatre, Tragedy, Urban

...trialsanderros, Colosseum 19th Century, 1890-1900

Tags: amphitheatre, Arena, Athletics, City, Colosseum, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Flavian, Late Antiquity, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Roman Icon, Roman Monument, Rome, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius, 2016

This private shrine once existed within a busy granary in the port city of Ostia. According to the mosaic below the altar, Hortensius served as a…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Production Space, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines, 2016

This map of Ostia details seventeen identified household and work-place shrines, all datable to the third century, meant for private devotion. These…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Mappa, Medieval, Ostia, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

Amphipolis, The Forum of Trajan in Rome., Wikimedia Commons, June 20th 2014

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Public Spaces, roman empire, Rome, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

Jebulon, A view of the Roman Forum., Wikimedia Commons, August 22nd 2013

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, Public Spaces, roman empire, Rome, Society, Urbanism

Michael White, UT-Austin/Ostia Synagogue Area Project, Synagogue at Ostia, Fourth Century, 2016

While the initial creation of the synagogue in Ostia by its Jewish community remains unclear, this plan shows the synagogue in its final phase, after…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, Judaism, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Synagoge, Urbanism

Doug Boin, Apotropaic Amulet from Ostia, Second to Fourth Century, 2016

Dated somewhere between the second and fourth centuries, this apotropaic amulet from Ostia exemplifies the eclectic, pragmatic, and individual nature…

Tags: Amulet, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Paganism, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

plotted by Doug Boin; based on map of Ostia from Archivio Disegni, Ostia Antica 11689, Distribution of Mithraea in Ostia, Third Century, 2016

This map shows all fifteen Mithraea, archaeologically attested thus far. Eight date to the third century, four early in that century and four late. …

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Cultural, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Medieval, Mithraea, Ostia, Pagans, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism

LPLT, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo

Modern-day, outside image of the Basilica of Sts. John and Paul on the Caelian Hill in Rome (Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio). The…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, San Giovanni e Paolo, Urbanism