Talk:Ostia Antica

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Lots of factual errors here! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.238.28.251 (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

> The mosaic floors of the baths are still visible near today's entrance to the town.

Several baths are known in Ostia. I think the writer may be thinking here of the bath near the barracks of the vigiles, but there aren't especially near the East (Roman) gate. The Forum baths, of course, are near the forum. Meiggs, Roman Ostia is the authoritative source in English. MarkBernstein 15:27, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Trajan Harbor image may be deleted

I wanted to warn editors of this article that I've just tagged the beautiful image of the Ostia harbor, apparently called "Trajan Harbor", for possible deletion due to failure to identify the copyright holder and lack of an original source. (See commons:Image:Ostia model.jpg.) This appears to be a photo of the same model that VRoma, aka "Virtual Roma", has some shots of. The three I found ([1], [2], [3]) were not the same image, but may come from VRoma or wherever they got them from. (I still haven't found the identity of the facility that has the model itself.) Anyone who may have information on this image, or a freely-licensed replacement, may want to try to fix or replace it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Editing of The Introduction

I added new information and revised the text to make the Introduction into more of an overview. Stwiso (talk) 22:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Lack of Verifiability

The factual assertions may or may not be well sourced, but it it is impossible to sort this out absent citations that refer to locations within the given references. Stwiso (talk) 05:08, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Stwiso, I believe you made that point. I say the following as someone who's just come to this article for the first time and had nothing at all to do with anything in it: instead of destroying the readability of the article with after every statement, use citation labels to cover the entire unsourced section. Delete material if you have sources to show the statements are false, and replace them with factual statements. Or come to the talk page and discuss what you feel needs to be supported, and indicate the nature of your concerns. Or suggest sources. In adding , you somehow added an extra period and quotation mark each time, which left cleanup for others to correct. I agree that the statements need to be supported by sources, but on the face, they don't appear to be absurd or frivolous. Cynwolfe (talk) 18:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Your tact is enviable, Cynwolfe.--Wetman (talk) 18:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Population estimates?

The article claims that Ostia had 50,000 people in the 1st Century C.E. and 75,000 people in the 2nd Century C.E. I can't find areas for either period. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites says it had 64 hectares in the early 1st Century B.C.E. [4] Since Roman urban populations were usually less than 200/ha, that would imply less than 12,800 people in the early 1st Century B.C.E.. Lo Cascio, citing Morley's Metropolis and Hinterland, references an estimate of about 30,000 people, apparently for the 1st Century C.E.. 173.66.211.53 (talk) 16:21, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I seem to remember Meiggs having an even higher estimate for that period. But I confess it's a long time ago that he was on my curriculum and he may also have become outdated on the question since then. --Saddhiyama (talk) 20:20, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

duplicate fact

search for "a house property of the Diocesi of Rome" and you'll see this woman dying being mentioned twice, separated by 2 paragraphs.