Piazzale delle corporazioni: statio 1

The room itself is empty but under the portico the following inscription can still be seen:
[C]LODIVS PRIMIGENIVS
[CL)AVDIVS CRESCENS Q(uin) Q(uennales) 
STVPPATORES RES[TIONES]
Clodius Primigenius (and) Claudius Crescens, guild presidents for five years. Makers of and traders in hemp, and rope-makers.
The inscription is put in a so-called 'tabula ansata' (tablet with dovenail handles).

The owners of this office were from Ostia and related to the quild of Stuppatores (rope-makers). Stuppatores comes from the Greek word stuppa, what means tow or flax.

The workshop, headquarters and temple of this quild was located to the west of the forum of Ostia (I,X,4).
Ropes, important for ships, were made from flax, espartograss (alphagrass) and hemp.
The second name on the inscription, Clodius, was a plebeian form of Claudius showing that the production and trade in ropes was not high standing.