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Item Number: 121671
Title: Ostia speaks : Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port
Author: van der Meer, L. Bouke
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789042927001
Description: Leuven: Peeters, 2012. 25cm., pbk., 129pp. illus. English text. Summary: "Ostia Speaks: Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port" by Dr. L.B. van der Meer provides a brief introduction to the material history of Ostia, Rome's harbour town from 300 BC until ca AD 600, before centring on about one hundred Latin as well as some Greek inscriptions, some of which are previously unpublished. It focuses on inscriptions which are still present in situ, in forty-two places. They range in date from ca 100 BC until ca AD 420. They belong to and cast light upon buildings, monuments, urban spaces and tombs. Some of them were reused in floors after ca AD 250. Each inscription is presented in full, supplemented by abbreviated names and words, translated to English, dated and commented upon from a contextual point of view. Sometimes inscriptions that are not in situ, as well as relevant ancient texts, are quoted and translated in order to sketch a broader picture.
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