Horreum

A Horreum (Latin horreum; horrea plural ) is a Roman warehouse or storage building.

In addition to warehouses for goods of all kinds were called horrea especially magazines for food, particularly cereals ( these were also called granaria ). There were warehouses for special goods:

• Horreum chartarium for paper
• Horreum candelarium for lamps and candles
• Horreum piperatarium for oriental goods

The ground floor of a Horreums consisted of individual chambers ( cella or apotheca ) that around a yard. Some Horrea were two stories; upstairs may have been housed the management of the building.

Preserved remains of Horrea there in Rome, but especially in Ostia, in provincial towns, among others, in Narbo and Patara.

In the northern provinces Horrea occur mainly at villae rusticae, vici or military camps. In the map of Middle Imperial temporal forts they are mostly in the bearing center near the Praetorium ( home of the Commander ) or the Principia to find ( headquarters building ). When supply depots as Rödgen, South Shields, Innsbruck- Wilten and Anreppen they form the dominant building type. In the hall, castle museum, a reconstructed Horreum serves as an exhibition building.