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Ostia Speaks: Inscriptions, Buildings and Spaces in Rome's Main Port
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ISBN10: 9042927003
ISBN13: 9789042927001
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Sep 3 2012
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789042927001
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Sep 3 2012
Pages: 141
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This monograph provides a brief introduction to the material history ofOstia, Rome's harbour town from ca 300 BC until ca AD 600, beforecentring on about one hundred Latin as well as some Greek inscriptions, some of which are previously unpublished. It focuses on inscriptionswhich are still present in situ, in forty-two places. They rangein date from ca 100 BC until ca AD 420. They belong to and cast lightupon buildings, monuments, urban spaces and tombs. Some of them werereused in floors after ca AD 250.
Each inscription is presented in full, supplemented by abbreviated namesand words, translated into English, dated, and commented upon from acontextual point of view. Sometimes inscriptions that are not insitu, as well as relevant ancient texts, are quoted and translatedin order to sketch a broader picture. The comments are based on a critical evaluation of the most recentarchaeological, historical and epigraphic publications. Several newinterpretations result from own research. The inscriptions cast light upon political, socio-economic, religious(pagan and Christian), and funerary aspects of the multi-ethnic Ostiansociety, its relation with Rome and the Mediterranean world. The publication is intended not only for scholars, teachers andstudents, but also for historians, classicists, philologists, linguists, epigraphists, archaeologists and art historians. It may also prove auseful vademecum for those who intend to visit or have visited OstiaAntica.
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