General information about the record
In the text-entry box «warehouse name»: type the common name of the building. For the horrea leave unnamed:
-if there is only one horreum known in the city: ex: Horrea of Djemila
-If there are several horrea in the same city: choose a precise common or usual name that can be the name of the street in which they are located or a component of their location (ex: Horrea of Leptis Magna North Quay).
Warehouse name
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Belongs to the group :
Résumé / general comment
This text-entry field allows gathering and summing up remarkable data on the treated building.
Attestation
This section lists the elements (archaeological remains, literary source, inscription, toponymy) that have revealed the existence of a warehouse. Several boxes can be ticked. For texts and epigraphy, reference and quotation must be given.
Archaeological remains
Toponymy
Additional comment or information
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Topographical indications
Ancient name
:
Common name
:
Ancient site
:
Modern site :
Locality
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Current Country :
Current administrative entity
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Description of location
<b>This section specifies the warehouse’s location in the city or in rural context and its natural or architectural environment.</b><br/><br/>
Example for the description of the location of the Horrea Epagathiana and Epaphroditiana at Ostia, Context: x city; Near: x River; Situation: x central; Additional comments or information: Building located in Via degli Horrea Epagathiana west of the Capitol. It borders on the west with the Piccolo Mercato, on the north with the horrea (Reg. I. Is. VIII. 2) and on the south with the Casette Repubblicane.
Context
Rural zone
City / urbanized area
Military camp
Port
Unknown
Near
River
Sea
Major road
Situation
Central
Outlying
Isolated
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Function
Additional comments or information: possibility to add text-entry details on the criteria for determining the function of the warehouse.
Civil
Military
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Ownership
Additional comments or information: possibility to add text-entry details on the criteria for identifying the ownership of the warehouse.
Status
City
Private Owner
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Current situation
Accessible
Partially accessible
Inaccessible
Reburied
Destroyed
Unlocated
Unspecified / not documented
Archaeological exploration in progress
Heavily restored
Additional comment or information
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Chronology
<b>The construction and operating date of a warehouse is written in the form of a period that is ticked by making use of the following list :</b><br/><br/>
Pre-Archaic (-1050-700)<br/>
Archaic (-700-480)<br/>
Classical (-480-323)<br/>
Hellenistic (-323-30)<br/>
Republican (-509-27)<br/>
Imperial (-27 to 284 advent of Diocletian)<br/>
Late Antiquity (284 to 600)<br/><br/>
More than one period can be selected.<br/><br/>
The exact date of construction will be entered in the text-entry field «Precise dating».<br/><br/>
Checkboxes (multiple choice) allow one to provide the dating criteria of the building. If dating is established on the basis of epigraphic stamps on bricks, the box «epigraphic» will be ticked. If the style of a mosaic or a painting can suggest dating, the box «excavation data» will be ticked.
Period
Pre-Archaic
Archaic
Classical
Hellenistic
Republican
Imperial
Late Antiquity (from the fourth century)
Unspecified / not documented
Precise dating
Dating criteria
Epigraphic
Building techniques
Timbres anépigraphes
Excavation data
Données textuelles
Iconography
Additional comment or information
Dimensions
The section «Covered area» allows one to specify, using a checkbox, if the surface mentioned in the text-entry box is the entire surface covered by the building or whether it represents only the uncovered part.
Known surface
Covered area
Complete
Partial
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Planimetric typology and plan
This section describes the general features (in broad outline) of the plan of the building (presence or absence of a courtyard and organization of rooms).
Planimetric typology
Plan with central courtyard
Rooms joined side by side
Hangar / rooms
Plan without courtyard
Rooms joined side by side
s
Hangar / rooms / gallery or nave
Single room
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Attested building materials
Stone
Wood
Clay
Terracotta
Metal
Other
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Building techniques
The text-entry section «Additional comments or information» allows giving details on the building technique used. To facilitate the search, the types of masonry will be entered with their Latin name: opus caementicium, opus mixtum opus africanum …
Rubble stonework
Ashlar stonework
Perishable materials
Composite
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Decor
A classic facade arrangement (not ornate architectural elements) is not regarded as decor.
Presence of decors
Yes
No
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Facilities
Raised floors
Courtyard
Shop
Water supply and/or water storage facilities
Drainage / sewage disposal
Coatings
Mezzanine
Silos
Hangar
Storerooms
Pithoi / dolia
Stairs or ramp
Railings
Windows
Inside partition walls
Closing system
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Presence of a storey
Yes
No
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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Access
A gate can be defined as a driveway access by its set-up (access conditions), the presence of cart tracks ... In the absence of such evidence, a gate whose width is greater than 2 m will be considered as a driveway.
Single door
Multiple doors
Access unknown
Preserved doorstep(s)
Access typology
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Pedestrian
Driveway
Unidentifiable
Additional comment or information
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Stored products
The nature of stored products can be known about through direct evidence or be a hypothesis that needs to be discussed, otherwise the unspecified box will be ticked. The text-entry box «comment» allows one to mention arguments which speak in favour of storage of a certain type of products, to specify the type of stored products (cereals, wheat, oil ...) and to provide information on ceramic containers (typology).
Solid food products
Liquid food products
Other products
Unspecified
Additional comment or information
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Functional typology
Origin
Warehouse from the outset
Building reconverted
Unspecified / not documented
Functional typology
Storage only
Composite
Sales
Production
Residential
Unspecified / not documented
Additional comment or information
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