Author: Daniel Damgaard

Tuesday the 29. of January 2019 at 19 o’clock s.t. project director Prof. Dr. Axel Gering will have a public lecture titled

“Archäologie rettet Kulturerbe! 10 Jahre Ausgrabungen & Dokumentation durch das Ostia-Forum-Projekt und neue Perspektiven“.

Registration for the public lecture is not necessary – everybody is invited!

It is organised by the Stiftung Humboldt-Universität.

The lecture will be held in the main building of the Humboldt-University:
Raum 2091
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin

For more information, check this link.

Three of our master students, Sophie Menge, Rocco Steputat and Ilya Poskonin, will present their master thesis work in the “Master and Ph.D. Colloquium“-series of the Winckelmann-Institut at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. The presentations will be held:

When: 24th (Sophie and Rocco) and 31st (Ilya) of January 2019 at 18:00 o’clock.

Where: Room 2095B, the Winckelmann Institute, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin.

Sophie Menge presents her results from the amphorae found in the different porticoes and rooms during our excavations.

Her presentation is titled:

“Amphorenfunde des Ostia Forum Projekts 2016-2018“ 

 

Rocco Steputat presents his results from the ceramics found in room TFR 2 located just behind the eastern portico next to the Capitolium. For some details of our excavations in this area, click here.

His presentation is titled:

“Funde und Kontexte – Die Objektdepots im Raum TFR 2 auf dem Forum von Ostia”

 

Ilya Poskonin presents his results about black-glazed pottery excavated in TFR 2 as well.

His presentation is titled:

“Die sogenannten “Schwarzfirnis”-Keramik des Ostia-Forum-Projekts 2016-2017: zur Datierung, Typologie sowie der Herstellung und Nutzung im regionalen Vergleich”

 

Here you have a link for a teaching video about 3D documentation techniques. It has been produced by Undine Lieberwirth and Julius Bussiliat in 2016 and is based on our excavations in the northwest portico, MFW, in 2011.

https://av.tib.eu/media/35260

This video corresponds well with our aims and methodology.

You can read more about the excavation in 2011 as well as the bigger context in the Forum here.

From the 18.-20. December 2018, Ph.D. student Daniel Damgaard will present some ideas and hypotheses from his dissertation. The ideas and hypotheses evolve around a pre-Castrum settlement in Ostia. He will be the first to speak in the seminar, and that will happen on Tuesday the 18. of December at 09:45 o’clock.

For more info on the seminar, check this link.

The Ostia Forum Project will start excavations Thursday the 16th of August and continue until Friday the 28th of September. We will not be on site in the weekends.

If you are in Ostia Antica in this period, feel free to come by. We will be excavating in the same room as the last two years – that is on your right hand side just before you enter the Forum’s plaza, when you come from the entrance (Porta Romana). You can’t miss us. We are the only one excavating in that area (the Forum area). To get an idea, you can check last year’s campaign photo-gallery here!

We will be glad to answer your questions.

Rocco Steputat, a master’s student from the Humboldt-University of Berlin, presents his results of some of our very interesting and early ceramics found in room TFR 2 located just behind the eastern portico next to the Capitolium. For some details of our excavations in this area, click here.

This will happen,

When?: The time is not yet defined. However, it will be during the first half of the winter semester – some time between October and December 2018 and at 18:00 o’clock. 

Where?: Room 2095B, the Winckelmann Institute, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin.

We have updataed our pages regarding “International Colloquia” and “University Presentations“!

Furthermore, we have added a new Project Publication from 2015 written by our cooperation partner, Undine Lieberwirth. She has written about the use of low budget equipment and open source software for high resolution documentation of archaeological stratigraphy. She used this method in our campaign 2011, where we excavated the western portico next to the Capitolium.

Prof. dr. Axel Gering, the director of Ostia-Forum-Project, will present our latest results regarding the reconstruction of the Roma and Augustus temple.

Come by the TOPOI Haus, Hittorfstrasse 18, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem at 18:00 o’clock and hear more about this reconstruction.

For more information, go to this website.

We have updated our Project Publications with year 2018 and also Forthcoming.

Dear all.

The reason we haven’t yet added any menu called “Campaign 2017” with sub-chapters of different subjects, is because the campaign of 2017 contained so many interesting finds and observations that it have taken some time to comprehend it all. We have and are therefore working on the meaning of it, before we can narrow it down to understandable sentences in a chapter on this website. We know that the last chapter of 2016 ends with “upcoming chapters”, but we are still working on these.

The campaigns of 2016 and 2017 were conducted in the same 5 X 5 metres trench involving a large marble deposit preserved on top, and we may therefore combine both years in the same chapters, menus and interpretations. Thus, we are now working with two years of campaigns from the exact same area, where the campaign of 2017 stratigraphically was deeper. Hence, we can now combine the finds of 2016 with the discoveries of 2017, which provides us and you with a more coherent picture and story of the room and the forum of Ostia in generel.

This post has just been made to clarify the above mentioned, and to inform you that this website is still very much up to date, and we are very much active in the pursuit of the history of the Ostian Forum.