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About 18 miles west of Rome, at the mouth of the River Tiber, stand the impressive ruins of Ostia, Rome’s most important port. With wonderfully preserved streets, massive granaries and warehouses, tenement blocks (the best anywhere in the Roman Empire), grand town houses, bath-houses and taverns it was a city bustling with activity, attracting people from all over the Empire. This is shown by temples dedicated to numerous gods and goddesses, including oriental deities Mithras, Cybele and Serapis. With many fine mosaics and wall paintings, its preservation rivals Pompeii and Herculaneum. Dr Sam Moorhead was National Finds Adviser for Iron Age and Roman coins in the Portable Antiquities and Treasure Section at the British Museum, and Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, and UCL. He has excavated widely in the Mediterranean and Britain,focusing on Roman and early Mediaeval periods. Serving on numerous councils, he was Chairman of the Palestine Exploration Fund and Honorary Secretary of the Roman Society. Voted Archaeologist of the Year 2011, he gained the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 2019 and is a prolific author of books about the roman empire. He is currently rewriting the standard reference for the coinages of the emperors Carausius and Allectus and is working on numismatic material from excavations at Ipplepen (Devon), Richborough (Kent), Butrint (Albania) and Sidon (Lebanon).
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