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Large apartment house at Ostia
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Large apartment house at Ostia

Alabastrine plaster and wood model, c. 1930
Rome, Museo della Civiltą Romana, inv. M.C.R. 2126

This model, on the scale of 1:50, represents the so-called House of Diana, a big apartment house (insula) in ancient Ostia dating from the 2nd century A.D.