Talk:Ostia Antica

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> 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)

[edit] 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)