A cargo worker at Ostia

A cargo worker at Ostia

This relief of cargo worker at the harbor of Ostia and Portus has been plausibly dated to the third century CE, a time when the harbor towns and Rome itself were undergoing significant social, political, cultural, and economic changes.

The relief is currently a part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), inv. number 56425.

Ostia, discovered in the 19th century, with limited reporting of find-spot or archaeological context ("From the house of [contemporary Italian] Senator Rosa"),

A low-resolution web license was acquired by the Living Late Antiquity team, 2017, from the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma