Summary (English)
The first season took place over five weeks during September and early October 2007, and was directed by Simon Keay and Graeme Earl (Southampton), assisted by Dott.ssa Lidia Paroli (Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici di Ostia), and involved participants from the universities of Southampton, Cambridge, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Aix-en-Provence, Tarragona and Seville.
It built upon two earlier seasons of topographic work (March 2007) and resistance tomography (June 2007). The excavations uncovered a large (250 mq) open area at the eastern edge of the Palazzo Imperiale, a key building at the centre of the port, revealing a large rectangular dock or canal that was probably of Claudian date, defined by a spectacular series of moles on the south side of the main Claudian basin of the port. This was filled with sand in the course of the first and second centuries AD, and its central stretch subsequently covered by a large circular building in the Severan period. The whole area was extensively replanned in the later fifth and sixth centuries AD.
- Simon Keay - University of Southampton
Director
- Graeme Earl - University of Southampton
- Martin Millett - University of Cambridge
Team
- Arnau Trullen - Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
- Damien Campbell-Bell - University of Cambridge
- Dragana Mladenovic - University of Oxford
- Eleanor Earl - University of Southampton
- Gregory Tucker - The British School at Rome
- Joanne Benn - University of Southampton
- Laura Engell-Holm - University of Southampton
- Leif Isaksen - University of Southampton
- Nicola Schiavitello - University of Southampton
- Nicole Smith - University of Southampton
- Oliver Lown - University of Cambridge
- Olivia Rothbury - University of Cambridge
- Pablo Garrido - University of Seville
- Samantha Reiter - University of Southampton
- Tara Crabbe - University of Cambridge
- Fabrizio Felici - Cooperativa Archeologica Parsifal
- Sabrina Zampini
- Céline Huguet - University of Aix en Provence
- Elizabeth De Gaetano - The British School at Rome
- Evi Margaritis - University of Cambridge
- Fiona Handley - University of Southampton
- Gareth Beale - University of Southampton
- Geoff Avern - University of Southampton
- Henriette Olsen - University of Southampton
- Kristian Strutt - Archaeological Prospection Services of Southampton
- Leonie Pett - The British School at Rome
- Penny Copeland - University of Southampton
- Pina Franco - University of Southampton
- Rachel Ballantyne - University of Cambridge
- Roberta Cascino - The British School at Rome
- Rose Ferraby - The British School at Rome
- Sheila Hamilton-Dyer - University of Southampton
- Stephen Kay - The British School at Rome
Research Body
- Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia
- The British School at Rome
- University of Cambridge
- University of Southampton
Funding Body
- Arts & Humanities Research Council
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