Ostia Antica, Località Fiume Morto: Una rilettura della problematica archeologica e geoarcheologica alla luce delle nuove ricerche

Pannuzi, Simona, Salomon, Ferreol, Goiran, Jean-Philippe, Keay, Simon J, Rosa, Carlo and Strutt, Kristian (2021) Ostia Antica, Località Fiume Morto: Una rilettura della problematica archeologica e geoarcheologica alla luce delle nuove ricerche. In, Caldelli, Maria Letizia, Laubry, Nicolas and Zevi, Fausto (eds.) Ostia, l’Italia e il Mediterraneo: Intorno all’opera di Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni. Atti del Quinto seminario ostiense, Roma-Ostia, 21-22 febbraio 2018. (Collection de l'École française de Rome, 583) Rome. École Française de Rome, pp. 161-199.

Abstract

The organisation of the eastern suburbia of Ostia in the Roman period was strongly influenced by the ancient via Ostiensis, the main road connecting Ostia to Rome, and by the waterway represented by the Tiber. In this area the Tiber was characterized by a meander that was converted into an oxbow lake after the flood of 1557, that created the present river course. The river channel divided the extra-urban territory of Ostia into two distinct parts, one on the left bank (the area of the present medieval Borgo and the surrounding area) mainly occupied by a necropolis, and the right bank (called Trastevere ostiense), located within the palaeomeander loop and separated from the city of Ostia by the river channel. This multidisciplinary study was conducted in recent years by the Italian-French-English team based on the archival research from previous twentieth century excavations conducted in the area, combining the results of previous and new geophysical surveys and new sedimentary coring. This work reconstructs the archaeological context in relation to environmental changes, thereby making it possible to create some hypotheses about the use of this part of the suburb of the city of Ostia in Late Republican and Imperial times.

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Author: Kristian Strutt

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