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 2020-2029

Project Publications 2024

Project Publications 2023

Project Publications 2022

Project Publications 2021

Project Publications 2020

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