For the logistic and financial support of OFP’s research, we have founded a new association named: „Ostia-Forumprojekt. Förderverein zur archäologischen Erforschung Ostias / Society for the Promotion of Research in Ostia”.
This association will be dedicated to the support of actual research by students and scientists with the long-term aim of a major final publication and innovative ways of presenting cultural heritage.
For the next years our association will be focussed on supporting the Forum-research and its publication: What we plan to do the next years is basically the subsequent work-up and interpretation of all our excavation data from 2010 to 2012, of our supplementing surface-survey data until 2014, and of our finds so far (coins, ceramics, small finds like glas, bronze, bone artefacts and up to all kinds of marble objects, inscriptions and large finds). We hope to be able to continue our cooperation with the Superintendency of Rome and Ostia and the direction of the ‘Scavi di Ostia’ (Prof. Cinzia Morelli) and the finds deposits (Prof. Paola Germoni) for these fundamental aims to be as successful as in the last year.
Donations most welcome! If you want to know more about the ‘Ostian (Forum) Society’ or “Förderverein“ read the following Chapter 5 and/or contact following adress:
contact@ostiaforumproject.com
If you are interested in knowing what we plan to do on site in Ostia and back home in university in the next year(s), see “2015 A view back & plans for the future“: 7 major project-areas (subdivided for BA-, MA- and PhD-theses) cover almost 1000 years of Forum history in the center of the world’s largest excavated site!