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Regio I - Insula XIII - Horrea I,XIII,1
(Warehouse)

A small warehouse, late-Trajanic or Hadrianic (opus mixtum). It is located near a fullery and a bakery. On either side of a long corridor are five rooms. A further room is at the end of the corridor. The corridor has a floor of opus spicatum, with a travertine slab with a drainage hole, suggesting that there was no roof. The doors of the rooms are 1.40-1.50 wide and have travertine thresholds with pivot-holes. In one room the back wall is sufficiently well preserved to show the lower half of one splayed slit window. The masonry of the corridor walls is of excellent quality. Inside the rooms the quality is lower, and here plaster has been preserved.

Originally a door in the back wall of one of the south rooms led to the building to the south. In the same room, opposite this door, was a second door leading to the central corridor. Both doors were blocked.

Small warehouses like this one were privately owned and served the local market only.

Plan of the store building

Plan of the warehouse.
After SO I.

Photos



The corridor seen from the east. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.


The corridor seen from the east. Photo: Klaus Heese.


[jthb - 25-Apr-2022]