Ostia Antica

The main road from Rome to Ostia looking toward the Porta Romana. The remains of the tombs which line this street can be seen on the left of the picture. It was Roman custom to bury the dead outside the city walls, mainly for reasons of hygiene.

Tomb or mausoleum in the Necropolis just ouside the Roman town of Ostia.

This is a tomb, probably from the 1st century AD. The urns containing the ashes were placed in the niches in the walls (columbaria). This tomb is situated in the necropolis on Via Ostiense, just outside the Porta Romana gate of Ostia

The niches where cremation urns were kept in a tomb on the Via Ostiense just outside the Porta Romana in Ostia.

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This is a beautifully decorated tomb from the first century AD, with later modifications. It's in the Porta Romana necropolis, just outside the Roman town of Ostia.

The tomb of C. Domitius Fabius Hermogenes in the Necropolis outside the Porta Romana gate of Ostia. It was a high, square monument, perhaps decorated with marble (only part of the core has been preserved). The sarcophagus must have been placed in a room in the upper part, which was reached along a narrow staircase. Next to the tomb a long inscription was found (CIL XIV, 4642), that informs us that it was the last resting place of C. Domitius Fabius Hermogenes, priest of the deified Hadrian. The city council had honoured him with a public funeral and with an equestrian statue in the Forum, the base of which has been found (CIL XIV, 353). Fragments of a marble architrave were found on which the name of Hermogenes has been preserved.

Looking out toward the Via Ostiense from Ostia Antica.

Decumanus Maximus (main east-west street) in Ostia Antica.

Ruts caused through centuries of use by carts and wagons - in the main street (Decumanus Maximus) of Ostia Antica.

View on to the main street (Decumanus Maximus) in Ostia Antica. The triangular feature in the top right is a nymphaeum (fountain-house).

Ostia Antica.

Ostia Antica.

The baths of Neptune in Ostia Antica showing the magnificent mosaics.

Detail of the mosaic in the Baths of Neptune, Ostia Antica

Ostia Antica. Part of the palaestra (a public space devoted to the training of athletes) can be seen to the right - it is surrounded on three sides by a portico with marble columns.

From the Baths of Neptune, Ostia Antica. 3rd century AD Displayed in Fiumicino Airport, Rome.

Just off the main street (Decumanus) in Ostia Antica.