Street of the Casa di Diana, © Tom Elliott, 1988
The Ostia Antica website is a fantastic and growing on-line resource of images, texts, explanatory essays and other information about the ancient site of Ostia, Rome’s original harbor city. Maintained by Jan-Theo Bakker and the Intenet Group Ostia (IGO), the site is far too extensive to describe in detail in here. Major subsections, which are sensibly subdivided, are outlined below.
Major Components of the Website
- Introduction to Ostia
- Advice for visitors to the ancient site
- Information about the IGO Mailing List
- Archaeological remains (plans and 3-D reconstructions, a topographical dictionary, and more)
- Ancient written sources, including literary and epigraphic texts and graffiti
- Excavations and research, including the “Ostia colloquia” and extensive bibliographies
- Relationships between Ostia and Rome
- Contact information for the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia Antica
Latest Ostia Website Updates
The site also includes a search engine and a “what’s new” section. Updates are regularly announced via the IGO Mailing List. The most recent of these (29 June 2004) highlighted the following additions to the site’s Topographical Dictionary:
