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Access to the tank fed by groundwater of the Grandi Horrea, from the south (left) and the north (right) (photo E. Bukowiecki, IRAA) Access to the tank fed by groundwater of the Grandi Horrea,
from the south (left) and the north (right)
(photo E. Bukowiecki, IRAA)

Progressing in the knowledge of warehouses and storage systems means to resume some specific case studies selected from the whole chronological timespan considered, from the proto-history period to late Antiquity, and from the territories included in the investigation, which correspond to the limits of the Roman Empire at its greatest extension.

Developments of this kind have been known for a long time in Greco-Roman Antiquity, but have very rarely been the subject of exhaustive studies and publications, because researchers’ attention was focused principally on the great monumental complexes of civic and religious life.

The project must resume some studies of storage structures in three different places. Two Roman sites, in the western side of the Mediterranean Basin: Ostia-Portus in Italy and the warehouses of Horrea Caelia at Hergla, in Tunisia; a Greek site in the eastern part: Delos, Greece.