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- Tags: Early Middle Ages
IssamBarhoumi, The Forum of Thuburbo Majus in Northern Tunisia.
IssamBarhoumi, The Forum of Thuburbo Majus in Northern Tunisia., Wikimedia Commons, September 28th 2014
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, North Africa, Politics, roman empire, Society, Thuburbo Majus, Tunisia, Urbanism
ISMAILOVE, The Forum of Meninx in Tunisia.
ISMAILOVE, The Forum of Meninx in Tunisia., Wikimedia Commons, March 28 2013
Meninx was an important center for the production of purple dye. This forum likely played a significant role in the production and sale of such a…
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Meninx, North Africa, Politics, roman empire, Society, Tunisia, Urbanism
Giovanni Battista Cipriani, An 18th or 19th century sketch of the Forum of Trajan.
Giovanni Battista Cipriani, An 18th or 19th century sketch of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, 18th-19th Century
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism
Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius
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
Jan Hazevoet, Detail of the Forum of Trajan.
Jan Hazevoet, Detail of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, April 15 2007
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism
Doug Boin, Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines
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, Forum of Trajan
Amphipolis, Forum of Trajan, Wikimedia Commons, June 20th 2014
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism
Doug Boin, Lulav, Ethrog, Menorah, and Shofar on the Corbel of the Ostia Synagogue
Doug Boin, Lulav, Ethrog, Menorah, and Shofar on the Corbel of the Ostia Synagogue, 2016
Close-Up of a corbel from the remaining structure of the Ostia synagogue, with a clearly discernible menorah
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Constantinople, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hagia Eirene, Inscriptions, Istanbul, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Turkey, Urbanism
Amphipolis, The Forum of Trajan in Rome.
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
Carole Raddato, Remains of the Peristyle which defined the Forum of Nerva.
Carole Raddato, Remains of the Peristyle which defined the Forum of Nerva., Wikimedia Commons, August 28 2011
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Nerva, Peristyle, Public Spaces, roman empire, Society, Urbanism