Ostia Antica and Portus | Italy
Rome's port complex where the Tiber river meets the Tyrrhennian sea; the city (Ostia) is well-preserved; the port area (Portus) was developed by emperors Claudius and Trajan and lies just to the north
Pleiades Gazetteer: 422995 and 423012
Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica: official website (in Italian and English)
Ostia-Antica: one of the first websites built by specialists for an archaeological site
Coins depicting Portus were minted as far away as Lyon (additional coins can be found on the Bay Bottles page, under "Motifs: Architecture on Coins").
A relief sculpture in Rome's Torlonia Collection represents Ostia/Portus and has traces of original paint.
Arja Karivieri, ed., Life and Death in a Multicultural Harbour City: Ostia Antica from the Republic Through Late Antiquity (Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2020). [website and pdf]
Jason Urbanus, "Rome's Imperial Port," Archaeology, March/April 2015.
Douglas Boin, Ostia in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Forum of the Corporations | Piazzale delle Corporazioni
A portico attached to Ostia's theater; mosaic walkway names international shipping companies
Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica: Forum of the Corporations
Ostia-Antica: Guide to the Stations of the Forum of the Corporations
view across the portico complex to the adjacent theater
view of the portico
Station 48 | fish, two palm trees, and a shipping amphora with M.C. label (Mauretania Caesariensis in north Africa)
Station 32 | ship, tower, and a label referring to shippers of southern France (the city Narbo or the province Gallia Narbonensis)
Station 21 | two grain containers, a ship, and a label referring to the shippers and merchants of Karalis (Sardinia)
Station 14 | an elephant and a label referring to the station or office of Sabratha, Libya
Station 18 | fish, two ships, and a label referring to the station or office of Carthage (Tunis), Tunisia
Station 3 | two ships approaching a lighthouse and a label referring to shippers of wood
Station 49 | two ships approaching a lighthouse (below) and a Nereid framed by branches (above) with no label
Station 47 | two ships with no label