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The singing loom: the importance of textile production in the Roman domestic soundscape [PDF]
, 2018 Ohrman, Magdalena
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Geoarchaeology confirms location of the ancient harbour basin of Ostia (Italy)
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2014To the northwest of the ancient city of Ostia, the analysis of cores revealed a stratigraphic sequence, which we interpret as the filling of a harbour basin. This basin, located at the west of the so-called "Palazzo Imperiale" presents seven characteristics: (1) The maximum depth is 6 m below the Roman sea level.
Goiran, Jean-Philippe +11 more
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Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the ancient lagoon of Ostia Antica (Tiber delta, Italy)
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015The ancient lagoon of Ostia played a key role in the development of the cultures of central Italy and especially that of Rome. The evolution of its environmental history and its partial transformation into a saline body of water during Antiquity remain as poorly known to archaeologists and historians as to geologists and geographers.
Vittori, C. +6 more
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Palynology and ostracodology at the Roman port of ancient Ostia (Rome, Italy)
The Holocene, 2016New detailed palynological and ostracodological analyses together with texture data from a sediment core drilled in Ostia Antica confirm the existence of the ancient Ostia harbour and its location by the Tiber River. Using the different proxies analysed in this work and chronologically framing the sediment record with three AMS radiocarbon dates, four
Sadori, L. +7 more
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Evidence of seismic damages on ancient Roman buildings at Ostia: An arch mechanics approach
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018Abstract In this paper, we present archaeological evidence of seismic damage in the ancient Roman town of Ostia and we perform structural analysis on damaged buildings based on the application of the principles of arch mechanics, in order to provide an objective means to identify the seismogenic origin of the observed ruptures and collapses.
Laura Pecchioli +2 more
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The Domus of Cupid and Psyche in Ancient Ostia
American Journal of Archaeology, 1967The Domus of Cupid and Psyche is perhaps one of the most interesting and attractive ruins in ancient Ostia.' It was excavated in 1938, but due to the Second World War it was not published until ten years later when Professor Giovanni Becatti included it in his introductory article on the Ostian mansions of the later Empire.2 Although the structure has ...
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Temple-complex post-dates tsunami deposits found in the ancient harbour basin of Ostia (Rome, Italy)
Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015Abstract Detailed geophysical and geoarchaeological investigations carried out in Ostia, ancient harbour of Rome, revealed two different generations of harbour basins and also proved the repeated impact of high-energy wave events on the study area. West of Ostia, at the southern bank of the Tiber, a lagoonal harbour existed from the 4th and 2nd cent.
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