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The vast building complex, attributed to the guild of grain measurers (mensores<\/em>) and located near the Tiber, consisted of a\u00a0horreum<\/em>\u00a0(warehouse) (A), a meeting hall (B) and a temple (C), all built in the Trajanic period (around AD 112).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0horreum<\/em>\u00a0had a long central courtyard with the\u00a0cellae<\/em>\u00a0(storage rooms) and larger rooms opening onto it: the latter may have been used for measuring and checking quantities of grain as this was the principal activity of the\u00a0mensores<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Inside an enclosure created in the southern area of the complex were a temple with four columns along the front and a brick cella, and a meeting room of the mensores themselves. Its mosaic floor, dating to the first half of the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, preserves a depiction of the activities performed by the\u00a0mensores<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMosaic with a representation of the mensores\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tReconstruction of the complex of the mensores (G. Caraffa)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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The vast building complex, attributed to the guild of grain measurers (mensores) and located near the Tiber, consisted of a\u00a0horreum\u00a0(warehouse) (A), a meeting hall (B) and a temple (C), all built in the Trajanic period (around AD 112). The\u00a0horreum\u00a0had a long central courtyard with the\u00a0cellae\u00a0(storage rooms) and larger rooms opening onto it: the latter may…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6620,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6627","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=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6627\/revisions\/6628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}