Ancient Rome: Images and Pictures
photos by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.
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Ostia Antiqua, the Port of Rome
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The Synagogue at Ostia
a Jewish synagogue from the 1st - 4th centuries; located in the SW corner of Ostia Antiqua


Torah Shrine

Exterior View from the West

Column w/ Capital

Brick-work on the South Wall

Main Bema (stage)

Menorah Design on Capital

South Wall - another view
(photo by Jaime Clark-Soles)

Prof. Michael White explaining
its history and constructions

Yale Graduate Students
visiting the Synagogue

Oven in the Synagogue Kitchen

Mosaic Floor

Small building next to the Synagogue

Other Scenes from Ostia


Beautiful building on the main street
(the Decumanus Maximus)

Main Portico of that building

Close-up of the lintel

Warren Wright telling us about
the Capitolium and the Forum

The Capitolium of Ostia

Some of Us in the Theater
(photo by Jaime Clark-Soles)

Marble columns in a house

Atrium of a house

The main theater next to
the Forum of the Corporations

A beautiful mosaic in
the Forum of the Corporations

Another mosaic in the
Forum of the Corporations

Mosaic in another house

Jaime Clark-Soles showing us
the Temple of Cybele / Magna Mater

Attis reclining on a rock;
in the Campus Magnae Matris

Statue of Cybele (?)
in the Campus Magnae Matris

Temple Platform in the Campus
(photo by Jaime Clark-Soles)

Another Temple in the Campus
(photo by Jaime Clark-Soles)

Interior of a Shop
(photo by Jaime Clark-Soles)

Bill Alexander describing
the Mithreum of Felicissimus

Mosaic dedicated to Felicissimus
on the floor of the Mithreum

Main Hall of the Mithreum


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