Volpato made excavations in Ostia (1779, with the antiquarian Thomas Jenkins), Porta San Sebastiano (1779) and Quadraro (1780); and sold sculptures to king Gustav III of Sweden (1784), to the Vatican Museums, and to the British collector, Henry Blundell.
It declined only in the 4th and 3rd centuries after the development of Ostia.
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Water is drawn in through fine holes near their base, the ostia, moved along by flagella and expelled from the osculi at the top, each osculum being a single exit formed from many fused ascon tubes.
The studies enabled the restorers to effectively intervene at Ostia Antica, on the paintings of Assisi Cathedral, on the frescoes of Correggio in Parma, the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and Leonardo's Last Supper.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, supposedly the "best man" in Rome, was chosen to meet the goddess at Ostia; and Rome's most virtuous matrons (including Claudia Quinta) conducted her to the temple of Victoria, to await the completion of her temple on the Palatine Hill.
He is a prolific scholar with more than 200 publications on archaic Rome, Roman hellenism, the topography and urban plan of Pompeii, Ostia, and Rome.
Treasures which were successfully imported include three columns from the ruins of the Golden House of Nero in Rome, used in the portico, and a statue of Venus excavated at Ostia.
Beard takes the Via Appia to cosmopolitan Rome to show the lives of the ordinary citizens in Imperial times who would be in the top seats of the Colosseum, take a boat to Rome's port Ostia importing goods from all over the Mediterranean and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio.
To secure succession Mikołaj went to Avignon and was appointed a bishop by pope Urban V and consecrated on 13 December 1365 by Cardinal Elijah, Bishop of Ostia.
They were floated by barge down the Nile River when the water level was high during the spring floods, and then transferred to vessels to cross the Mediterranean Sea to the Roman port of Ostia.
Ostia forms the main setting for "The Roman Mysteries" series of historical novels for children by Caroline Lawrence.
It is uncertain whether the church was built over a pre-existing Paleochristian church, but according to tradition, the patron saint of Ostia, the martyr Saint Aurea, was buried near the present-day location of the church.
Tabernae probably first appeared in Greece in locations that were important for economic activities around the end of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Upon the Roman Empire’s expansion into the Mediterranean, the numbers of tabernae greatly increased, in addition to the centrality of the taberna to the urban economy of Roman cities like Pompeii, Ostia, Corinth, Delos, New Carthage, and Narbo.