Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the lulav (palm branch and symbol of the harvest festival).

Alfonsina Russo, Head of the Department for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage, emphasized that Ostia’s location at the mouth of the Tiber favored its role as a center of commercial, linguistic, and ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò ... despite its central location next to a square that was once the city’s headquarters for shippers and traders ...