Fasti Ostienses
The Fasti Ostienses were an ancient calendar ( fasti ) that was set up as a large-format inscription in the city of Ostia near Rome - hence the name - and which, in addition to a directory of important holidays of the year, also listed lists of various officials and outstanding events. Numerous fragments were found on which the Roman consuls and suffect consuls as well as the duumviri (mayors) of Ostia are listed according to the year of their office. In addition, various notes on important events in the corresponding years (at the imperial court, in the city of Rome, in Ostia itself) have been preserved , as in a bullet-point chronicle . The isolated remnants of the actual calendar only include daily entries for three months of the calendar year.
The Fasti Ostienses , like the Fasti pontificales in the city of Rome, were presumably led by the priest of the god Vulcanus and were embedded in the wall of his temple as a monumental stone inscription. The preserved remains of the annual entries extend over more than two centuries from 49 BC. BC to 175 AD, but probably until the time of Sulla , i.e. around 80 BC. BC, handed back. It can be assumed that the creation of the lists began in the year 2 AD at the latest, after which they were updated annually.
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literature
- Ladislav Vidman: Fasti Ostienses. 2nd edition, Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovacae, Prague 1982 (comprehensively annotated edition, entirely in Latin).
- Bernhard Brehmer: Fasti Ostienses. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , column 439.