The Temple of the Ship Carpenters was built on top of a fullery. The fullery was excavated in the 1990's, but it had been identified earlier, in 1938-9. It consisted of two courtyards, one behind and one below the temple, surrounded by rooms. The building phases could be dated to the second half of the first and to the second century AD (opus mixtum). It stopped functioning when the temple was built, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius or Commodus.
In the floor of the courtyard behind the temple are four very large basins, communicating with one another, and supplied with water through a lead pipe. The fullery contained at least fifty bowls: large pressing-bowls and smaller bowls in which detergents such as the creta fullonica (fuller's earth) were stored. On either side of the pressing-bowls were small walls that were used as hand-rests. There were no bowls along the back wall, where masonry bases were found, used for beating cloth. In the centre of the back wall is a niche, which contained a statue of a deity.
The later building is entered through a corridor between two shops. In front of the temple is a courtyard surrounded by a portico with brick piers. The portico near the entrance is extra wide, and supported by two additional piers. Here were found a black-and-white mosaic with geometrical motifs and a ship (much damaged), and inscriptions referring to the guild of the fabri navales, the ship carpenters who built and repaired ships. One of the inscriptions, on a base for a statue, is a dedication to a patron of the guild, P. Martius Philippus, from the late second century AD (AE 1955, 177):
| The temple was built on a high podium, and was reached along marble steps. In the front part of the podium, below the pronaos, was a room that could be reached through a door in the left side wall. In front of the temple, in the courtyard, was a rectangular basin. The area behind the temple (c. 16 x 14.50) was flanked by porticoes and could be used by the guild as meeting-hall. Puble.io is a new iO game where you control a boat in a bubble and kill the enemies by throwing your hook. Collect orbs to develop the size of your bubble. Ostia and Portus each had its own guild of ship carpenters. The guilds had hundreds of members, which suggests that ships were not only repaired in the harbours, but also built. The fabri navales must have worked together with several other guilds, such as that of the stuppatores (for more information see the Officina Stuppatoria (I,X,3)). In the courtyard 47 columns, 20 bases and several capitals were found, not finished yet. They are of marble from the Greek island Thasos. On some of the columns the name Volusianus v(ir) c(larissimus) was found. They belong to the second half of the fourth or the first half of the fifth century: this man was either C. Ceionius Rufus Volusianus Lampadius, praefectus Urbi in 365-366 AD, or his nephew, praefectus praetorio in 429 AD. He may have lived in the Domus dei Dioscuri (III,IX,1). The columns were stored here to be used in building projects of Volusianus, one of which was the adjacent Basilica Cristiana, where columns with his name were used. The fact that many columns were never used may be related to an invasion, such as thag by Gaeseric and the Vandals in 455 AD.
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