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• Ostia
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• Sources
• Russel Meigs - Roman Ostia, At the Clarendon Press 1973
• Guido Calza - Necropoli nell'Isola Sacra'(1940)
• Dr. Jan Theo Bakker.
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  notes
• 1: Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Roman historian, rhetoric and writer. He was born in Turkey in 60 BC and died in Rome in 7 BC. Writer(in Greek) of 'Roman Antiquities'
• 2: Ancus Martius ruled 24 years from 640 till 616 BC
• 3: Read the article 'Overseas Trade'
• 4: In 37 AD Caligula transported an obelisk from Alexandria to Rome, via Ostia and the Tiber. It was to be erected on the spina of the Vatican Circus. The ship used for this was subsequently sunk between the piers of Portus, Claudius' new harbour, and used as the foundation for the lighthouse.