by Prof. Dr. Axel Gering
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The Project
A very short introduction
Acknowledgements
A basic question
Aims and Methodology
The Project Evolution
Excavations 2002-2007 and Habilitation thesis
Berlin Team in KBO 2008-2011
The Humboldt-Ostia-Forumproject (HOF) 2010-2014
Ostia-Forum-Project (OFP)
Project-Director
International Colloquia
Press- & Media-echo
Excavation & survey
The Team
Excavation and survey team
Pre- and Post-Excavation Team
About the relevance: Some examples
Rewriting Late Antiquity part 1: Catastrophic events & “Post-Barbarian” urbanism
Spolia-surveys: Unknown monuments reused in the late pavements
Rewriting Late Antiquity part 2: The last monumental Forum – its final reuse and collapse
Results of fieldwork 2010-2013
The Forum: Excavation history & open questions
Introduction and excavation results 2010
Excavation Results 2011-2013
2014 campaign: From a late marble-pile to Augustan temple pediments
2014 Chapter 1. From a clean toilet to a dirty jungle…
2014 Chapter 2. The third working week and an antique “marble-workshop-depot”
2014 Chapter 3. From late antique reuse to early Imperial pediment sculptures
2014 Chapter 4. A “fish-tail” and the augustean imperial narrative
2014 Chapter 5: A new supporting pillar for the OFP – the ‘Society for the Promotion of Research in Ostia’.
2015 Campaign: A view back & plans for the future!
2015 Chapter 1: News from the media & an anniversary of five years in the Forum
2015 Chapter 2: plans for the future & new cooperations
2016 Campaign: From a late- & post-antique lime-kiln deposit to a Republican temple-kitchen
2016 Chapter 1. Structural news and the first working weeks in August
2016 Chapter 2. Temple votives and kitchen equipment – an inventory of the Capitolium-Cult (and its predecessors)?
Small-finds & their significance
Inscriptions
Large finds
Campaign Photo-Gallery
2010
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2010 Slideshow Gallery
2011
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2011 Slideshow Gallery
2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2017 Slideshow Gallery
2019
2019 Slideshow Gallery
Daily-life & excursions
Follow an average day
Slideshow
Camp
Camping Site
Teaching
At the Winckelmann-Institute
On the camping site and on the excavation site
Excursions
Borgo
Site Plans
Forum plans
Taberna Forum Rooms (TFR)
Tempio di Roma e Augusto (TRA)
The Capitolium (CAP)
Mundus (MUN)
Main Forum Portico (MFP)
Main Forum Rooms (MFR)
Main Forum West (MFW)
Main Forum East (MFE)
Main Forum Domus Portico (MFD)
Domus del Tempio Rotondo (DTR)
Taberna della Venere (TDV)
Exedra (EXE)
Foro della Statua Eroica (FSE)
Via della Forica (VDF)
Aula del Buon Pastore (ABP)
Casa della Basilica (CDB)
Taberna Giove e Ganimede (TGG)
Caseggiato dei Triclini (CDT)
Forica dei Triclini (FDT)
Terme del Foro (TDF)
Main Forum ‘Curia’ (MFC)
Main Forum Basilica (MFB)
Taberna Tempio Rotondo (TTR)
Constantius II (CON)
Unknown inscription (UNI)
Attius Clementinus (ACL)
Manilius Rusticianus (MLR)
Ragonius Vincentius Celsus (RVC)
Piazzale del Tempio Rotondo (PTR)
Terme Bizantine (TBZ)
Ninfeo della Venere (NDV)
Casa Basilicale (CBA)
Casa del Larario (CDL)
Publications
Project Related Bibliography
Project History
Project Publications 2010
Project Publications 2011
Project Publications 2012
Project Publications 2013
Project Publications 2014
Project Publications 2015
Project Publications 2016
Project Publications 2017
Project Publications 2018
Project Publications 2019
Project Publications 2020
Forthcoming
Subprojects
Ostian Marble Roof tiles – a typology
Habilitation project: Präventiver Erdbebenschutz und historische Reparaturen von Mauerwerk. Drei Fallstudien: Piccolo Mercato, Forumsthermen und Insula del Serapide e degli Aurighi (Ostia)
Ph.d. project: Unknown Forum Structures: The Synthesis of Stratigraphy and Geophysical Excavation Data regarding the Development of the Forum’s Area in Ostia from the Republic to the early 2nd Century CE
Renovation and Statue-relocation: The Cultic Topography of the late antique Forum
The MFP apse: Documentation and building history
Programming an application for finds recording
Building History of Casa della Basilica (CDB)
Harris Matrix
Web-GIS
Aerial Photography
Laser Scanning
3-D Visualisation
Coins
Ceramic Finds
Small Finds
Spolia
Mortar Imprints
Statue Context
Epigraphy
Archive Studies
Urbanism
University
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin: adresses & links
The Ostia-Project rooms: a new centre of research
Post-Excavation work
Project related activities in Berlin
Discuss with us: Level-Raises
Discuss with us: Coins
Discuss with us: Ceramics
University Presentations
Our agenda for the final publication
3D-Visualization
3D-Screenshots: A Gallery
3D-Screenshots: A Slideshow Gallery
3D-Screenshots Sorted
MFP in 3D
MFR in 3D
MFW in 3D
Trenches in 3D
Forum overall in 3D
3D Archaeological Field Recording in Ostia
Point-clouds and Ortho-photography: examples
Why do we use laserscans?
Future perspectives of 3D works
Cooperations
Support Us
Funding so far
University Funding: Aims & limits
Ways to support us
Application
Contact
Contact Information
Links
Impressum and legal details
Anita Kocsis
Field archaeologist, working with the geo-radar as well as the total station
