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Ostia, Origins through Empire

2022· reference-entry· en· W4281486184 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAncient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExcavationRoman EmpireEmpirePoliticsArchaeologyHistoryAncient historyGeographyLate AntiquityMiddle AgesLaw

Abstract

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Ostia was a city in the Roman Empire located on the west coast of Italy, approximately 25 kilometers west of Rome. Ostia acted as one of the original maritime gateways to Rome, and its strategic location at the mouth of the Tiber River, along the coast, and at the junction of pre-Roman movement corridors ensured it maintained this prominent role for nearly a millennium. From roughly the 3rd century bce to the 6th century ce the city continually changed its appearance, composition, and ground level. Due to its intimate connection with Rome, and coupled with this longevity of occupation, Ostia has played a prominent role in understanding Roman material culture. Given the nearly 150 years of excavation and study of the site, there is a vast bibliography relating to virtually all aspects of Roman life, from high philosophy to toilets (and toilet philosophers), and from mosaics to urban planning. The excavation of the site itself in the 19th and 20th centuries offers a mirror to the contemporary history and politics of Italy, as well as shedding light on the development of archaeological methods and theories of the ancient Mediterranean world. Specialist conferences occur every few years, with dedicated research into specific topics published in numerous languages almost constantly. However, some works from the mid- to late 20th century have been included as they remain relevant to Ostian studies. The works presented below do not aim to be exhaustive but offer points of departure to begin researching certain aspects of the city.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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