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- A horreum (plural: horrea) was a type of public warehouse used during the ancient Roman period. Although the Latin term is often used to refer to granaries...
- The Horrea Galbae were warehouses (horrea) in the southern part of ancient Rome, located between the southern end of the Aventine Hill and the waste dump...
- often used to refer to granaries, Roman horrea were used to store many other types of consumables; the giant Horrea Galbae in Rome were used not only to...
- known as Horrea Caelia. It is unclear whether the name derived from Punic, the Gr**** demigod Hercules, or Latin words for storehouses (horrea) or frontier...
- horreum (pl. horrea) became a standard building form. The most studied examples are in Ostia, the port city that served Rome. The Horrea Galbae, a warehouse...
- the grave. Aurelia worked in a warehouse called the Horrea Galbae. This warehouse was named the Horrea Galbae after becoming imperial property. This was...
- on. The main structure there surviving to the present day is a granary (horrea) built during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian (117–138 AD). Beside...
- which explains that the Pyramids were called the "granaries of Joseph" (horrea Ioseph). This reference from Julius is important, as it indicates that the...
- the commercial one: along the square lay four warehouses: the horrea olearia and the horrea troadensia, valentiaca and costantiaca, respectively oil (the...
- ISBN 978-0-19-924656-4 Houston, George W. (2003). "Galen, His Books, and the Horrea Piperataria at Rome". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 48. University...