Fragment of the Fasti Ostienses
Fragment of the Fasti Ostienses
The marble fasti of the city of Ostia, carved on slabs placed side by side, are columns of lists of Roman consuls, administrators of Ostia and events worthy of memory, written in chronological annual order. From the surviving fragments, reused as building material, we are able to obtain not only the names of senators and members of the ruling class, but also data regarding the history of Rome and Ostia from 49 A.D. up to 175, but it is probable that they continued beyond this date. There is debate concerning the time in which they were initiated and that of their destruction, which was possibly sometime around the end of the fourth century. In this fragment there are the data pertaining to the years 91 (a sacrificial ceremony for a tree struck by lightning) and 92 (the emperor Domitian consul for the sixteenth time, along with the senator Quintus Volusius Saturninus).