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    Horreum (redirect from Horrea)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Hergla (redirect from Horrea Coelia)
    known as Horrea Caelia. It is unclear whether the name derived from Punic, the Greek demigod Hercules, or Latin words for storehouses (horrea) or frontier...
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    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...
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    campaigns. It has been suggested that the Carpow fort was the place named as "Horrea Classis" or "Poreo Classis" in the Ravenna Cosmography. The Carpow fort...
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    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...
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    which explains that the Pyramids were called the "granaries of Joseph" (horrea Ioseph). This reference from Julius is important, as it indicates that the...
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    royal halls, hospitals and market halls. Its predecessors included Roman horrea and Neolithic long houses. According to English Heritage, "exactly how barns...
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  • various kinds of staff and the storehouses for grain (horrea) or meat (carnarea). Sometimes the horrea were located near the barracks and the meat was stored...
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  • number of horrea in the late 3rd and early 4th centuries appears to have included Serdica as a principal gathering base due to the 8 horrea discovered...
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    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...
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    landmarks constructed under Nerva were a horreum (granary), known as the Horrea Nervae, and the Forum of Nerva begun by Domitian, which linked the Forum...
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    Basilica Maritime Baths Baths of the Seven Sages Baths of Trinacria Baths in Horrea III, XVII, 1 Regio IV Baths of the Lighthouse Byzantine Baths Baths IV,...
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    stands a short distance away from the east bank of the River Tiber, near the Horrea Galbae where the state-controlled reserve of olive oil was stored in the...
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    Porticata with the triumphal arch, the Roman food warehouses of Milan (lat. horrea), the Roman river port of Milan, the Roman castles of Milan and the early...
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    building. Although similarly spacious Horrea have also been proven in other auxiliary sites, it is always double Horrea, which is not indicated by any structural...
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    which may well have been horrea (warehouses), given that other nearby cities (e.g. Tropaeum and Zaldapa) also received horrea rather than basilicas in...
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    there. There were four horrea: the olive oil warehouses (horrea olearia) the Horrea Troadensia, 'Troadensian warehouses', Horrea Valentiaca, 'warehouses...
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    Previous post(s) Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong (1967–1968) Titular Bishop of Horrea (1967–1969) Apostolic Administrator of Hong Kong (1968–1969) Alma mater...
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  • early 4th century, had a perimeter of 2,604m and a thickness of 3.20m. Horrea were located southwest of Tungrorum, just outside the first wall, and depended...
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    in Rome, the grain was stored in large warehouses, called horrea, until needed. Most horrea from the 1st century AD onwards were state-owned. Hundreds...
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    famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses (horrea Vulgate, σιτοβολῶνας LXX) and sold to the Egyptians" (v. 56). Similarly...
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    Regio contained 19 aediculae (shrines), 89 domūs (patrician houses), 16 horrea (warehouses), 15 balneae (bath houses) and 20 loci (fountains). At the turn...
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    fort, measuring 2 hectares (4.9 acres) to accommodate extra granaries (horrea). Around 200, the gatehouses of the fort were rebuilt in stone and the walls...
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    that their town was 'Orrea'. This has been identified as the Roman fort of Horrea Classis, located by Rivet and Smith as Monifieth, six miles east of Dundee...
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    Hadrumetum (Sousse), the Metropolitan Archbishopric Hermiana Hierpiniana Hirina Horrea Coelia (Hergla) Iubaltiana (at Kairouan) Iunca in Byzacena (Ounga) Leptiminus...
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    Deutschland 40). Sabine Faust: St. Irminen: Römische Getreidespeicher (horrea) und Wohnbauten. In: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (Hrsg.): Führer zu archäologischen...
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    lateral edges. Roman rectangular cartouche on the frieze of the entrance of Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana, Ostia, Rome, unknown architect, 145-150 AD...
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    good functioning of the industries, public works and grain supply silos (horrea), and a quaestor who was in charge of the administration. The first duumvirs...
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