Author: Bakker, Jan Theo.
Title: The mills-bakeries of Ostia. Description and interpretation.
Description: Amsterdam, Gieben, 1999. [5],217 pp. 30 b./w. figs & 100 b./w. ills on [40] plts. Orig. hardcover (gilt letterd gray cloth). Large 8vo. (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archeology, vol. XXI).Original hardcover edition (sold out by the publisher). New price of the paperback edition, still available from publisher Brill, is € 200.50. - Text in English. - The ruins of Ostia, main harbour of Imperial Rome, were uncovered in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. In the present volume the remains of three buildings used for the milling of grain and baking of bread (pistrina) are studied according to modern archaeological standards.

Keywords: Archaeology Roma Archeologie Rome