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Regio V - Insula XI - Portico del Monumento Repubblicano and Magazzino Annonario (V,XI,4-5)
(Porticus of the Republican Monument and Warehouse of the Annona)

The Porticus of the Republican Monument is located to the south of the Decumanus Maximus, near the theatre. Behind the porticus is a row of four shops, behind which is a large hall. The building was named after the republican funerary monument V,XI,6 at the east end. It was built during the reign of Commodus (opus latericium).

A corridor to the east of the shops leads to a wedge-shaped, Hadrianic warehouse. At the north end is a large hall with two rows of brick piers. Later many rooms were created in the hall. To the south is an open area with some 100 buried storage jars, dolia defossa, that contained olive oil or wine. The word annona has been applied to the building, so the food-supply organized by the Emperor. The size of the building suggests that the oil or wine was not for local use, but distributed in Rome.

The southern part, with a staircase and some piers, has not yet been excavated completely.



Plan of the buildings. After SO I.

Photos



The porticus and shops seen from the north-east.
Photo: Klaus Heese.



General view of the dolia, from the south-west.
Photo: American Academy Rome.



Remains of dolia. In the background is the theatre.
Photo: Jan Theo Bakker.



A dolium. Photo: Jan Theo Bakker (featuring Leonard Bakker).


[jthb - 9-May-2022]