Ostia Forum Project

by Prof. Dr. Axel Gering

  • Home
  • 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
    • Excavation, survey and pre- and post-excavation teams
    • 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)?
    • 2017-2020 Campaigns: New sanctuary, marble decor and Forum development
      • 2017-2020 Chapter 1. The Capitolium and its Hadrianic building programme
      • 2017-2020 Chapter 2. The recently discovered Sanctuary on the Forum of Ostia. Ceramics in Context: The Development of the Sacred Area from the Middle Republic to the Hadrianic Period
      • 2017-2020 Chapter 3. First Data from the Coins in TDV.
      • 2017-2020 Chapter 4. The Cult of Vulcan – Sacrifice, Ritual Deposits and Dining with the God of Fire.
      • 2017-2020 Chapter 5. Building Decor on the Forum of Ostia: For the Allocation and Reconstruction of the Marble Furnishing Elements of the Forum Buildings in their Original Context.
      • 2017-2020 Chapter 6. The Search for the First Forum of Ostia
    • 2021-2022 Campaigns: Deposit work, drawing and measuring and different deities
      • 2021-2022 Chapter 1. The Architecture of the Capitolium
      • 2021-2022 Chapter 2. The recently discovered Sanctuary on the Forum of Ostia. Ceramics in Context: The Development of the Sacred Area from the Middle Republic to the Hadrianic Period
      • 2021-2022 Chapter 3. Coins and Metals in Context
      • 2021-2022 Chapter 4. A Newly Discovered Sanctuary Under the Forum of Ostia – Sacrifice, Feasts, and Ritual Deposits
      • 2021-2022 Chapter 5. Building Decor on the Forum of Ostia
      • 2021-2022 Chapter 6. The first fora of Ostia
    • Small-finds & their significance
    • Inscriptions
    • Large finds
  • Campaign Photo-Gallery
    • 2010 Gallery
    • 2011 Gallery
    • 2012 Gallery
    • 2013 Gallery
    • 2014 Gallery
    • 2015 Gallery
    • 2016 Gallery
    • 2017 Gallery
    • 2019 Gallery
    • 2020 Gallery
    • 2021 Gallery
    • 2022 Gallery
    • 2023 Gallery
  • Daily-life & excursions
    • Follow an average day
    • Camp
    • 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
    • Forthcoming
    • Project Publications 2020-2029
      • Project Publications 2024
      • Project Publications 2023
      • Project Publications 2022
      • Project Publications 2021
      • Project Publications 2020
    • Project Publications 2010-2019
      • Project Publications 2019
      • Project Publications 2018
      • Project Publications 2017
      • Project Publications 2016
      • Project Publications 2015
      • Project Publications 2014
      • Project Publications 2013
      • Project Publications 2012
      • Project Publications 2011
      • Project Publications 2010
    • Project History
  • Subprojects
    • Habilitation project: Präventiver Erdbebenschutz und historische Reparaturen von Mauerwerk. Drei Fallstudien: Piccolo Mercato, Forumsthermen und Insula del Serapide e degli Aurighi (Ostia)
    • Building History of Casa della Basilica (CDB)
    • Ostian Marble Roof tiles – a typology
    • The MFP apse: Documentation and building history
    • Programming an application for finds recording
    • Renovation and Statue-relocation: The Cultic Topography of the late antique Forum
  • 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(s) for the final publication(s)
  • 3D Visualization
    • Virtual 3D Reconstruction of Ancient Architecture in the Ostia Forum Project
    • 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

Project Publications 2010-2019

Project Publications 2019

Project Publications 2018

Project Publications 2017

Project Publications 2016

Project Publications 2015

Project Publications 2014

Project Publications 2013

Project Publications 2012

Project Publications 2011

Project Publications 2010

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