{"id":6474,"date":"2026-01-12T09:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/larea-del-teatro\/grandi-horrea\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:55:24","slug":"grandi-horrea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/larea-del-teatro\/grandi-horrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandi Horrea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ostia\u2019s largest commercial building is traditionally dated to the period of the emperor Claudius (AD 41-54), though recent studies have proposed an initial date in the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century BC. It had a porticoed courtyard with tufa columns (B), around which the\u00a0cellae<\/em>\u00a0(storage rooms) (C) were arranged on three sides.<\/p>\n

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Reconstruction drawing of the\u00a0Horrea<\/em>\u00a0seen from the north
(I. Gismondi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was completely rebuilt between the late 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0century and the early 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, when the brick walls were renovated, two parallel rows of\u00a0cellae<\/em>\u00a0were added in the centre of the courtyard and the second storey was built.<\/p>\n

At this time, the floors of all the\u00a0cellae<\/em>\u00a0were raised using\u00a0suspensurae<\/em>\u00a0(little brick pillars), thus creating a space that insulated the grain stored here from damp.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tTerracotta statuettes of the saccarii, port workers in charge of unloading and transporting foodstuffs\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tDetail of a suspensura\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ostia\u2019s largest commercial building is traditionally dated to the period of the emperor Claudius (AD 41-54), though recent studies have proposed an initial date in the 1st\u00a0century BC. It had a porticoed courtyard with tufa columns (B), around which the\u00a0cellae\u00a0(storage rooms) (C) were arranged on three sides. It was completely rebuilt between the late 2nd\u00a0century…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6462,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6474\/revisions\/6475"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}