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Rome: Forma Urbis Roma, Porticus Aemilia and Galba warehouses
Rome: Forma Urbis Roma, plan of wareshouses at Porticus Aemilia and Galba (Vatican Lib..)
This portion of the Forma Urbis Romae plan shows ancient warehouses dating from 193 BC - AD 69 at the Porticus Aemilia and the Praedia Galba complex.
The Porticus Aemilia, shown with partial inscription in Forma Urbis
fragments 23 and 24b-d, was a huge (90 x 487 meter) warehouse complex
built in 193 BC by M. Aemilus Lepidus and M. Aemilius Paulus to store
goods shipped on the Tiber. It was built upslope in terraces.
Adjoining to the north, in a 16th century drawing from now lost Forma Urbis
piece 23a, are warehouses from the Praedia Galba complex, a country
estate on the Aventine extending south past Monte Testaccio, and taken
over by the emperor Galba.
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