As part of the Giornate Europee del Patrimonio (European Heritage Days), a group of visitors passed by the excavations currently being carried out by the OFP in rooms TFR.

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The Ostia Forum Project will be represented by its director, Prof. Dr. Axel Gering, and PhD candidates, Sophie Menge, Johannes Trockels, and Daniel Damgaard at the BerGSAS Workshop on New Research in Rome and Ostia, 18-19 July 2024.

The Carlsberg Foundation has granted an Internationalisation Fellowship to Daniel Damgaard. He will continue his work in the Ostia Forum Project, where his postdoc project will concern the Forum phases of the 1st century CE – thus in direct continuation of his PhD project. The postdoc project will commence directly after the final assesment of the PhD.

Ph.D. student Sophie Menge has been interviewed by the Stiftung Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin about the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

The article is in German.

For the eight time, the École Francaise de Rome will host the Ostian seminar. The Ostia Forum Project is represented by three of its members. Prof. Dr. Axel Gering and ph.d. candidate Sophie Menge will be presenting the newest research on the sanctuary discovered in rooms TFR. Ph.d. candidate Daniel Damgaard will be presenting his newest research on the first Forum and its Republican phases.

The seminar will take place between March 21-23 2024. For more on the seminar, see the programme below.

From September 2 until October 13 2024, the annual excavation campaign will take place in the heart of Ostia. Once again, the focal point is the further examination of a hitherto unknown sanctuary. In that regard, the Ostia Forum Project is looking for eight participants, who can partake for the entirety of the campaign. All costs will be covered by the project.

For more information, see the document below (in German).

Dear all

We have now updated the site with pictures from the most recent campaign. For the first time since 2019 and post Covid-19, we could finally excavate again. We continued from where we left off in 2019 – in TFR.

You can see the slideshow gallery here.

Once again, the Stiftung Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin finances scholarships in the Ostia Forum Project. This time it is a one 1-year scholarship (300€ / month) commencing April 1 2024. To be considered for the positions, you must be a bachelor or master student in Classical Archaeology and be present at the university.

If you are interested in Ostia and in getting to know that place more, then apply. The deadline is January 15, 2024

For more, click here and here.

The Ostia Forum Project will be presenting in the international colloquium Urbs in transitum: innovazione e tradizione tra Roma e Ostia nel III secolo organised by Istituto Storico Austriaco, Academia Belgica and Parco archeologico di Ostia Antica. The colloquium will be taking place between October 4 and October 7 2023 in both Rome and Ostia.

The project is represented by the director, Prof. Dr. Axel Gering, and ph.d. student Sophie Menge. Their presentation is titled From sanctuary to shops. The transformation of the TFR-area northeast of the Forum from the 2nnd to the 3rd century AD.

Ph.D. candidate Daniel Damgaard is going to present his newest and final research regarding the Forum of Ostia in its diachronic perspective.

The venue is Friedrichstrasse 39, 79098 Freiburg i. Br. It is organised by Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften – Abteilung Klassische Archäologie. The presentation begins at 18:00 c.t. in room HS 1015 (KG I).

For the semester programme, see below