List of buildings in Regio V of the ancient Roman city of Ostia . The names are given in Italian; many buildings do not have their own name and are only referred to in literature as Caseggiato or Edificio ( residential house, building ). The most important information here is the modern number code (region, insula, house number).
A number of shops dating from the Severan Period ; a staircase occupies an upper floor.
Horrea
V, I, 2
Camp, only partially excavated. It dates to around 50 AD. Recent studies indicate that a smaller amphitheater was built here in later times .
Insula II
Large insula with commercial and residential buildings as well as thermal baths.
Surname
number
description
Caseggiato
V, II, 1
Row of shops, only partially excavated
Caseggiato
V, II, 2
camp
Caseggiato
V, II, 3
Tenement house
Domus del Protiro
V, II, 4-5
Large, representative house; built in Severan times; Modifications until the beginning of the fifth century. The house takes its modern name from the entrance with pillars bearing a tympanum with an inscription. This perhaps once contained the name of the house owner, but is only preserved today in fragments. The house is partially richly decorated with geometric mosaics and marble floors. In some rooms there are remains of simple wall paintings. In the center there is a courtyard with a nymphaeum on the west side. There is a water basin in the middle of the courtyard. There are several stairs that occupy at least one upper floor. The house is where some statues were found.
Large, representative house with a garden as an inner courtyard; Numerous statues were found.
Caseggiato
V, II, 9
Workshop and shops
Caseggiato
V, II, 10
Shops and house built in Severan times. Remodeling in the third century. Decorated with simple wall paintings.
Caseggiato
V, II, 11
House from Severan times; simple wall paintings; several conversions
Caseggiato
V, II, 12
Small house, initially built as a workshop or shop.
Caseggiato del Pozzo
V, II, 13
It is a residential building from Severan times, although the house was initially used as a shop or workshop and was rebuilt around 250. The facade has four entrances, two to a shop and one to the actual house; a fourth leads to a staircase that testifies to an upper floor. In the middle of the house is a small courtyard with a fountain that has a marble top. The courtyard has a simple black and white mosaic. There are also simple wall paintings here. Behind it there are more rooms.
Caseggiato
V, II, 14th
Small commercial house; built in the Trajan period , remodeled in the Severan period (especially the interior)
Insula III
Surname
number
description
Caseggiato dei Lottatori
V, III, 1
The house of the wrestlers dates back to Hadrianic times and was probably the seat of an association. The entrance is in the north between two shops. The center of the house is an atrium with columns. In the entrance room there is a mosaic with wrestlers and a short inscription. The house is richly decorated with black and white geometric mosaics.
Edificio
V, III, 2
Commercial building (?)
Domus del Pozzo
V, III, 3
3rd century home built into a Hadrianic period house; partially decorated with mosaics and wall paintings. The entrance is decorated with two brick half-columns.
Casa
V, III, 4
small residential building
Caseggiato
V, III, 5,
Stores
Insula IV
Surname
number
description
image
Edificio
V, IV, 1
Stores
Edificio
V, IV, 2-3
Stores
Insula V
Surname
number
description
Caseggiato dell'Invidioso
V, V, 1
load
Terme dell'Invidioso
V, V, 2
The thermal baths, which take up a large part of the insula, were built around 50 AD. Conversions date from the time of Antoninus Pius . The black and white mosaics date from the third century and subsequent alterations from the early fifth century. The main entrance is on the west and is decorated with a large, figural mosaic. In the center there is a small palaestra.
Edificio
V, V, 3-4
Commercial building
Insula VI
Surname
number
description
Caseggiato del Sole
V, VI, 1
Large apartment building from the second half of the second century. The house takes its name from a graffito: DOMINVS SOL HIC AVITAT - Lord, the sun lives here . The sun may refer to Sol-Mithras. The house has a number of shops on the lower floor (west side). On the east side there are three smaller apartments and two courtyards. There is a latrine in one yard. The large rooms were probably once further divided by wooden walls. This is indicated by the different discolorations of wall paintings. On the street side there are two flights of stairs that take up an upper floor. The wall paintings probably date to the second century. At an unknown time, a tavern was built on the south side of the house.
Edificio
V, VI, 2
Stores (?)
Edificio
V, VI, 3,
Stores
Edificio
V, VI, 4
Stores (?)
Caseggiato
V, VI, 5
unsafe function
Mitreo dei Serpenti
V, VI, 6
Mithraeum with well-preserved wall paintings. The sanctuary was built around 250 AD. The wall paintings show snakes and are older than the actual Mithraeum. They have been left with the establishment of the latter, probably because the serpent appears in the cult of Mithras as a symbol of the earth.
Caseggiato
V, VI, 7th
Stores
Insula VII
Surname
number
description
Sede degli Augustali
V, VII, 1-2
Building that dates to the second half of the second century. It is probably the seat of an association. The entrance to the building is to the north between four shops and a staircase. There is also an entrance between shops on the east side. There is another staircase here. The center of the building is a large courtyard and a portico with a water basin in the middle. The rooms are arranged around it. To the south there is a room with an apse that was lined with marble in the fourth century. A room next door has a polychrome mosaic. There were nine statues in one place in the house, but they probably come from the necropolis and were temporarily stored here in order to later burn them to lime. It remains uncertain which association had its seat here. The excavator suspected an association for the imperial cult, but this was based on a misinterpretation of the statues, which are not part of the building.
Fullonica
V, VII, 3
dyeing
Domus dei Capitelli di Stucco
V, VII, 4-5
Residential house from the second century BC; numerous modifications. Parts of the house were torn down and replaced by the Sede degli Augustali. Only the area of the house around the peristyle remained. Here are stuccoed brick columns that gave the house its name.
Insula VIII
Surname
number
description
image
Domus del Larario
V, VIII, 1-4
Residential building
Insula IX
Surname
number
description
image
Mitreo di Felicissimo
V, IX, 1
Mithraeum decorated with black and white mosaic. The mithraeum dates to the end of the third century and is built into an older building. The floor mosaic shows the various degrees that could be attained in the Mithras cult. An inscription names the mosaic artist: FELICISSMUS EX VOTO F - Felicissmus made it (the mosaic) because of a vow .
Edificio
V, IX, 2
unsafe use
Insula X
Surname
number
description
Domus su via degli Augustali
V, X, 1
It is a small house built into second century shops. Some rooms have a marble floor. The main room is decorated with opus sectile (marble) and its entrance was decorated with two pillars. The walls were also partially decorated with marble, but the upper half was painted. A staircase occupies another floor.
Santuario della Bona Dea
V, X, 2
sanctuary
Terme del Nuotatore
V, X, 3
Thermal baths from the time of Emperor Domitian , renovations in the second century, in operation until the third century. The thermal baths are decorated with simple mosaics, but there were also remains of stucco decorations. A mosaic depicting a swimmer gave the building its modern name.
Insula XI
Surname
number
description
image
Tempio Collegiale
V, XI, 1
It is a temple that probably belongs to a guild. Construction began under Emperor Commodus. However, an inscription on the facade is dedicated to Pertinax , to whom the temple was dedicated.
Portico del Monumento Repubblicano and Magazzino Annonario
V, XI, 4-5
Shops and wine or oil stores
Monumento Repubblicano
V, XI, 6
Republican tomb
Portico degli Archi Trionfali and Horrea dell'Artemide
V, XI, 7-8
camp
Insula XII
Surname
number
description
image
Horrea di Hortensius
V, XII, 1
Large warehouse built in the first century; Modifications in Severan times and in the fifth century. The name of the warehouse comes from a shrine with an altar and mosaic with an inscription, consecrated by L. Hortensius Heraclida, a captain. The inscription on the mosaic reads L [UCIUS] HORTE [N] SIUS HERACLIDA N [AVARCHUS] CL [ASSIS] PR [AETORIAE] MIS [ENENSIS] EX VOTO / TEMPLUM FECIT IULIUS VICTORINUS SACER [DOS] TESSEL [AVIT] - Lucius Hortensius Heraclida, captain of the Praetorian fleet at Misenum, built this temple because of a vow; the priest Julius Victorinus made the mosaic.
↑ A monograph is dedicated to this insula: Johannes S. Boersma : Amoenissima Civitas: block Vii at Ostia: description and analysis of its visible remains. Assen 1985, ISBN 90-232-2049-8 .
^ Claudia Liedtke: Adjoining room decorations of the 2nd and 3rd centuries in Italy. Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017539-8 , pp. 114-115.
↑ L. Bouke van der Meer: Ostia speaks, Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port . Leuven / Paris / Walpole MA, ISBN 978-90-429-2700-1 , 47, no.11
↑ L. Bouke van der Meer: Ostia speaks, Inscriptions, buildings and spaces in Rome's main port . Leuven / Paris / Walpole MA, ISBN 978-90-429-2700-1 , 107-108, No. 41
