Galba Warehouses

Galba warehouses, Galbova warehouses ( lat. Horrea Galbana / Galbiana / Galbes / Galbae ) - in ancient Rome, food warehouses in the southern part of the city between Aventine and Testaccio hill.

Warehouses were built on the land of a noble family of Sulpciyev Galba , on the site of an urban villa, one of the members of this kind ^[1] . The warehouses of Galba kept bread, wine, olive oil.

Thanks to the excavations at the beginning of the 20th century and the preserved parts of the Marmara Plan of Rome , it became known that the warehouses consisted of three huge rectangular buildings arranged symmetrically, separated by courtyards, into which separate rooms of the warehouses were opened ^[1] . Total warehouses were divided into 140 rooms, at least on the first floor, and occupied an area of ​​21,000 m² ^[2] .