Macellum a Ostia: una ipotesi

The epigraphic evidence mentioning a macellum in Ostia reveal some very important aspects. On the one hand, it can be stated that the city had two monuments of this type: one from the Republican age and another built in the Augustan age and destined to have a very long history, lasting until the 5th century AD. For this second monument, an identification is proposed with a building located in Regio V of the city, recognisable thanks to traces from aerial photographs and identified as a domus of extraordinary size, whose general characteristics, however, are more in keeping with those of a macellum.