Foreigners from Eastern Mediterranean at Ostia, Portus and Puteoli in the imperial period. A reconsideration of the matter through the analysis of funerary inscriptions
Funerary inscriptions may offer a very important insight in the main activities undertaken by the deceased during their life and in a few cases they can also reveal their origins. Even if with caution, mostly because of the difficulty of considering the remaining epigraphic documents as really representative of the actual social situation, we can consider the funerary sphere as a substantial image of the various different people and cultures living and meeting each other in the harbour cities.