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  • Sinagoga
  • Ostia antica
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Rome
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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The five trenches (= T) excavated in 2011 (T18b Extension, T22-T25) revealed a greater number of surfaces and more sealed loci than all other excavation seasons combined.

    T18b (2009) was located north of IV.17.1 facing the Via Severiana. In 2011, we reopened the western end of this trench and extended it to the north (T18bE) to explore the relationships among the synagogue building, the pavements from T18b, and the Via Severiana. T18bE in 2011 raised more questions than it answered. The individual layers of pavement, so clearly defined in the north balk of the 2009 trench, extended north a short distance before disappearing into a thicker matrix of pavement, the west side of which contained a circular pit cut with a round raised center (the whole resembling the impression of a car tire). It may have been a base for a mile marker for the Via Severiana or part of a later construction for a utilitarian use.

    T22 was placed at the NE corner of IV.17.2, adjacent to the entrance to the building to discern the relationship of the foundation of the western porch wall to the main building structure. We excavated several sealed surfaces and uncovered the remains of a reticulate wall built along the exterior of the western porch wall of Building 2. We also uncovered a pit dug along this reticulate wall, through all of the pavements, into which amphorae had been set. This could represent a late antique storage area.

    T23 was placed in IV.17.2, Room 10, in the southern area of the space between Building 1 and Building 2, in order to ascertain the relationship between these buildings. This area had been only partly excavated by Floriani Squarciapino. We uncovered the remains of a floor surface that had been partially disturbed by previous excavations (perhaps an impluvium), below which we found a drain that ran south before turning sharply west. This drain post-dates both the eastern wall of Building 2 and the southern wall of Room 10. Below the level of the eastern wall of Building 2 we uncovered an earlier foundation running at a different angle from the existing wall; it appears to be on the same line as the walls of the nymphaeum to the south.

    T24 is located within Rooms 15 and 16 of Building 1, in an area only partly excavated in the 1960s. We discovered 4 floor levels containing charred pottery and carbonized remains indicative of cooking. The lowest excavated level was a uniformly compacted dirt surface, which yielded a Vespasianic quadrans (67-77 CE), but ceramic evidence suggests a date of the second century CE or later.

    T25 was located immediately south of IV.17.2. This area had been disturbed and some ancient foundations destroyed by the construction of the fence along the modern highway. We found that the foundation of the southern wall of the nymphaeum was shuttered, not poured in to the sand. We also uncovered part of an east-west drain in the western portion of the trench.

  • Mary Jane Cuyler - University of Sydney 
  • L. Michael White - University of Texas and Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins 

Director

Team

  • Brent Nongbri
  • Alan Stearman
  • Daniela Williams - Università degli Studi Roma Tre
  • Adele Rinaldi
  • Letizia Ceccarelli - University of Cambridge
  • Marzia Di Mento - L.A.T.E.R.E.S. ARC. TER
  • Allisa Stoimenoff
  • Amanda Kimura
  • Claudio Negrini
  • Jonathan Maclellan
  • Luca Mocchegiani Carpano - Responsabile del Servizio di Prevenzione e Protezione (H&S Officer) per l'attività di ricerca e studio archeologico della UTEXAS

Research Body

  • The University of Texas at Austin

Funding Body

  • The Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at Austin

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