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Regio III - Insula XIV - Magazzino dei Doli (III,XIV,3)
(Warehouse of the Dolia)

This is a single room (c. 10.00 x 10.00) with dolia defossa, buried jars for storing wine or olive-oil. The room was built in the Hadrianic period (opus mixtum), but there are many later modifications.

Two slit-windows in the south-east wall indicate that the area originally did not have a roof. In the room are 21 dolia defossa, not dug into the ground, but in the ground because the floor level has been raised. The raised floor may well bear a relation to the blocking of a door in the south-west wall. Only the upper part of this door is now visible. Above the door a rectangular cult-niche was hacked out. Another, semicircular niche was hacked out in the south-east wall.

The warehouse presumably belonged to a workshop on the ground floor of the adjacent House of Annius (III,XIV,4). In the facade of the latter building is a relief with storage jars.



Plan of the building. After SO I.

Photos



General view of the storage room, from the north-west. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.


Detail of some of the dolia. Photo: Daniel González Acuña.


A hacked out cult niche in the south-east wall. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.


[jthb - 4-May-2022]