He was one of Ostia’s most significant excavators, active in the early twentieth century. Left: Vestibule A, “nave” B and apse C, seen from the Decumanus (south-east). Left: Funeral inscription, reused as drainage lid in corridor 24. The damage, particularly of heads, suggests that the altar, with its references to the Imperial cult, was attacked by Christians in the fourth century AD. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. Thanks to the Acts of Martyrs we know that she came from a noble family and she was killed under Claudius the Gothic during the 3 rd century. The cathedral was in the south-east quarter of the town, just by the gate in the city walls at the end of Via del Sabazeo and to the east of the street. / Photograph: Giovanni Rinaldi. Photos | Summary | Follow. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. Unfortunately she did not start an explicit discussion with Heres. In the north-west wall are a marble threshold and step, leading to room C, that is at a lower level. It fits perfectly on its present spot. The Christians built an oratory or little church on top of the mithraeum, in the second half of the fourth or in the fifth century (the position is not a coincidence, of course). “Come to the sources of the Christians, that are Geon, Fison, Tigris, and Euphrates” (Février). The Building with Opus Sectile was built 100 metres outside Porta Marina, behind the ancient beach. On the floor is a black-and-white mosaic of very high quality, with depictions of a trident and two fishes. Inside, near the apse in 1950, a little marble column was found, dating back to the 5 th century which was probably an Easter candle. To his left is a basket with bread, a reference to the holy communion. C. Cartilius Euplus lived in the second century AD. on p. 39. A container for offerings or a statue was fastened on top with lead (the altar is explicitly called “altar” in an inscription, but it may have been re-used as a statue-base). The chapel was visited for many centuries. Left: The entrance of the building in the north-east corner, seen from the south-west. The central god in the relief on the altar is Hercules, standing next to an altar. 2. On the walls of room B is plaster, on the floor a white mosaic. Note the fragment of a threshold with pivot hole, replacing the shop-threshold. The rooms on both sides of the courtyard were bedrooms (cubicula). In the vertical side of the podia, halfway down the shrine, are niches. Mithraea), sometimes spelled Mithreum, is a Mithraic temple, erected in classical antiquity by the worshippers of Mithras.Most Mithraea can be dated between 100 B.C. Podiums were set against the long sides of the room. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in March. In the centre of the house is courtyard 32, with entrances to the north, east and south. 87. On the sides griffins are depicted.Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. On the opposite side of the courtyard is the large hall N. In the entrance are two marble columns and two brick semi-columns. / Photograph: Gerard Huissen.Right: The rooms to the north of the podium, seen from the north. It does not suggest Christian use of the building (Brenk). Roman Necropolis. Nymphaeum II,VII,7 (B) was a decorative feature from the first three centuries AD. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Here a black-and-white mosaic was found of Neptune drawn by hippocamps, sea monsters and fish. The missing six letters are perhaps to be restored as ad Annonam, and might be a reference to the temple (of Annona?) Originally it had a lid in the shape of a tympanum. We do not know where they stood originally. To the north is a peristylium with porticus, accessible from the west (opus reticulatum, dated to the second quarter of the first century AD). / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Right: In the foreground the piers supporting the architrave with the inscription, to the left room D, to the right room C. Seen from room E. Note that the niches in room C are facing the viewer. The seats of these two guilds must have been nearby, but have not yet been found or identified. On each side of the landing a rectangular hole was found. Ostia seen from the sky Ostia - A Mediterranean port [Movies] Twenty short walks, with Guy de la Bédoyère In-depth, American Institute for Roman Culture In-depth, with Jan Theo Bakker Documentaries, lectures and teaching Recent excavations and restoration Ostia as it is and as it was The oldest movies of Ostia, 1924-1939 The Portus project The statue is a dedication by C. Cartilius Euplus, witness the inscription on the plinth: NVMINI ATTIS C(aius) CARTILIVS EVPLVSEX MONITV DEAE. In room 28 statues of Diana and Apollo were found. 123. There are a few remains of paintings, of landscapes and standing figures. Later still, in the 18th century, they were brought to Albano Laziale (near Castel Gandolfo), to the chapel of the order of the “Suore Oblate di Gesù e Maria”. Left: The semicircular basin and the fountain with pyramid in courtyard G, seen from the north-west (in front of rooms B and C). Aurea’s companions were executed by a high official from Rome, Ulpius Romulus. According to the inscription the altar was dedicated to the Lares Vicin. Qui fons nisi dominus Jesus Christus, fons vitae aeternae sicut Pater? 11. A cross and the Greek letter chi (initial of Christ). The original is now in the Museo Nazionale in Rome. The walls of the room were all painted white. Reconstructed section of the Basilica (Michael Heinzelmann). Ostia was in de Romeinse tijd de havenplaats van Rome.De stad is grotendeels bewaard en opgegraven, en is een van de best bewaarde Romeinse steden in Italië. Proceeds are donated to charity. An apse with two marble columns and simple capitals was erected in room G (opus vittatum). / Paroli 1993, fig. Ostia’s best preserved compitum (a shrine at crossroads) is on Piazza dei Lari, a small square to the south of the House of Diana (I,III,3-4). 16.Right: A reconstruction drawing of the building, seen from the south. The pottery found in the trenches confirms the Constantinian dating of the church. The corpus stuppatorum in Portus worshipped Minerva Augusta as conservatrix et antistites (“defender and overseer”) of the guild. / Photograph: Silvano Sanges.Right: A stretch of the Via Severiana. 7.Center: The group of Mars and Venus. 'sacrificial victim'), is the bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist (also referred to as the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, among other names). Gregoriopolis. He argues that the letters TI in the second line cannot be understood as an error. / From Calza 1916, fig. In the lower part is a semicircular travertine ledge, presumably for votive offerings. / From the west. OSTIA ANTICA, ITALY - AUGUST 9: Medieval ceiling of the Santa Aurea church in a wide-angle view on August 9, 2013 in Ostia Antica, Italy wrought iron Holy cross detail at the top of a bell tower medieval Church of Santa Maria, in Monteriggioni, Siena Province of Tuscany The mithraeum may have been installed in the first half of the third century. Left: Top of the altar. / From Bakker 1994, fig. In the entrances to rooms Q and R are marble thresholds. The south-west wall of the “nave” is a row of five columns. The chapel (A) was also at a very high level. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Right: Inscriptions on the front side, right. The east half has rectangular niches flanking the window. The dedication to Silvanus is usually seen as re-use of the altar by the sacomarii. His posture is reminiscent of river gods (the river Gallos), but the statue also brings to mind sarcophagi, with a depiction of the deceased on the lid. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Right: The painting by Andrea Sacchi. On the floor are remains of a white mosaic and reused marble. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. 326). Below the north-eastern staircase is a latrine. Next to the hall is room M, with a raised floor with suspensurae and heating pipes along one wall. In front is a basin, on top a semicircular painted niche for a statue. Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. Calza then suggests, that the apsidal room behind the inscription was a baptisterium. At one end is a crocodile chasing a pygmee. The wide staircase leading to the podium is missing, and the cella was not built (possibly funds of the guild had been confiscated by Alexander Severus’ successor Maximinus). In anqituity the villa was very close to the beach. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Center: Detail of an opus sectile-floor. / Photograph: Bill Storage.Right: The statue of Mithras. The main entrance is in the west part, between two shops. Scenes from the martyrdom are also depicted in SS. He was one of Ostia’s most significant excavators, active in the early twentieth century. / From Vermaseren 1977, fig. The large room in the north part may have been a dining room or kitchen. - Medieval and Renaissance Ostia. Approx. On the bottom rested a marble slab with a pivot hole. Geon, Fison, Tigris, Euphrates. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Right: The result of cleaning the mosaic in room 4. The remains of the walls even in the foundations were scanty, but sufficient to establish a plan. D(is) M(anibus) A. LIVIO AGATHANGELO SEVIR AVG(ustalis) QVINQ(uennalis) HEREDES. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. A road with basalt pavement running along the building could not be used properly at the time of the construction; some of the basalt blocks had been removed and there was debris on the road. This man and other members of his family also put up dedications in the Phrygianum in Rome, a large sanctuary of the Magna Mater in campo vaticano, next to the old St. Peter. In 1981 a fragment of a Christian inscription was found near the church: (“Chryse is sleeping here”). 4. Sixteen fragments of the cup were found, together with numerous other glass sherds. Plan of the mithraeum. The building was excavated by Lanciani in 1888 and Vaglieri in 1909 and 1910. In the centre of the apse, at a height of c. 3.00, is a small rectangular window. Sacramental bread, sometimes called altar bread, Communion bread, the Lamb or simply the host (Latin: hostia, lit. The figure of Christ (Christus Victor) was incised, with a nimbus, long hair, and wearing a mantle. The Church dedicated to St. Aurea is another symbol of the modern Ostia Antica village. Left: Inscriptions on the front side, left. For the Christian tradition built up around this area see F.A. There is a similar room on the east side of the square. Note the springing of the high cross vault, and the filling of the low cross vault to the right of it. Behind the courtyard is the substructure of the podium of the temple, which was never finished however. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Center: The apse of the church. A large basin (height c. 0.80) must have been standing in front of the niches, set against the entire apse. We may note that L. Calpurnius Chius was also president of the guild of the grain measurers (mensores frumentarii). Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), Italiaans cineast 119a-b.Right: The basins in the open area, seen from the south. Below the palaestra is an older, huge cistern (36 x 26 metres), that was abandoned when the Hadrianic baths were built. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Right: A statue of the Magna Mater / Cybele (h. 0.98), possibly from Ostia. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. To the right is a corridor leading to a well surrounded by three niches (for statues of the nymphs?). / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker.Right: The raised room, from the south-east. In the centre of the mediaeval borgo Ostia Antica is the church of Aurea (in Greek: Chryse, “golden girl”). It is outside the visitable area of the Ostia ruins. Church in Ostia June 19, 2016. Afterwards work did not continue, the building was never used. / Photograph: L.B. There was therefore no storage space and the room must have been very draughty. The Greek letters iota and chi (initials of Jesus Christ), a heart-shaped leaf, two black ovals (the number M, the life cycle of the phoenix), the letter R (of. Rome, Museo Nazionale. Drawing of a glass cup, found in a drainage channel. It has been suggested that the heads are portraits of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina or Commodus and Crispina. He dates it to the period of Constantine and suggests that this is the church of Peter, Paul and John the Baptist that, according to the Liber Pontificalis, was donated to Ostia by Constantine. Left: A reconstruction drawing of the building, seen from the south. The Christian reference to the nymphaeum is comparable to the pagan association of some nymphaea with Oceanus. 52.Right: A funeral cippus found in the building (NSc 1919, 48-49). The four corners are decorated with ram’s heads and wreaths. Detailed plan of house / From Heres 1982, fig. On the floor is opus spicatum. The present author would like to relate this to the state of preservation of the altar. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. To the north-east of the “nave” are rooms F, G and H. These rooms originally formed part of the baths to the north-east (they had raised floors, suspensurae). Vaglieri 1914, Tav. / Photograph: Eric Taylor.Right: The south-east part of the courtyard, seen from the north-west. Denomination: Plan of the east part of the temple-complex of the Magna Mater. Photo: Jastrow, CC BY 2.5. / Photograph: Silvano Sanges.Right: The peristylium seen from the north-east. It is preceded by a fairly large area (c. 9.90 x 11.10) without a roof, surrounded by a wall (opus reticulatum from the Julio-Claudian period). Left: The Christian relief. The architect was Baccio Pontelli. Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. It can be reached along a staircase in porticus 30. Left: Room D, seen from the back (north-west), after the excavation. The northern wing of the porticus may have served as dining room. The building is situated to the north-east of a secondary gate at the south end of Via del Sabazeo. A thyrsus close to Hercules refers to Liber Pater. He oversaw the building of a church on the Via Latina. See "Terms of Service" link for more information. Left: Detail of the floor of room C. / Photograph: Eric Taylor.Right: Detail of the floor of room C. / Photograph: Eric Taylor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) In the building the following objects were found: Heres has established that the last phases of the building belong to the fifth century. / Photograph: Jan Theo Bakker. Left: The shrine seen from the west. The soldiers were beheaded ad arcum ante theatrum (“near the arch in front of the Theatre”), clearly the Arch of Caracalla. Left: The Nilotic scene in latrine 2. Ostia (Ancient History Encyclopedia). Take them as the sources of the Christian!” (Klauser). The oven was in room D. The adjacent room E is a cistern. On the floor we see Nereids, tritons and Scylla, striking with an oar. Some masonry (opus vittatum) has been dated to the sixth to eighth century AD. The remains of the dike, seen from the south-east. To the south-west of A and B is another “nave” (E), that was also reached from the Decumanus (w. of entrance 2.66). To the north-west and north-east of room 10 are furnaces. Left: Opus sectile, detail of the head of Christ. / Photograph: Silvano Sanges. Calza’s dating and interpretation of the building have been criticized by many authors. 3. The reference to the nymphaeum must have had a deeper, Christian meaning, and it does not seem to have been baptism. Left: The palaestra seen from the south-east. The north wall of the Aula, seen from the south-west. The relief of the Good Shepherd (h. 0.68 m.). The soldiers were beheaded near the arch of Caracalla in front of the theatre. In the west wall, next to the entrance, is a recess for a relief or an inscription. Two poles may have supported a canopy. Human bones, sarcophagi and fragments of sarcophagi were found around the chapel and below the floor. A geophysical survey (combined use of aerial photographs, magnetometry, and electrical resistance tests) of the unexcavated areas of Ostia led to the discovery of this church.