Site file model

You'll find here the file-model of wharehouses data-base, which include several section for the description of the sites identified as wharehouses.

 

General information about the record

This section collects technical data on the record’s author and the date of creation or modification of the record that are automatically generated. The checkbox «status of progress» allows the record’s author and the administrator to distinguish the records drafting in progress from those that are ready for publication. The text-entry field is a reminder for the author where he can make a list of parts to complete. In the text-entry box «warehouse name»: type the common name of the building. For the horrea leave unnamed: -if there is only one horreum known in the city: ex: Horrea of Djemila -If there are several horrea in the same city: choose a precise common or usual name that can be the name of the street in which they are located or a component of their location (ex: Horrea of Leptis Magna North Quay).

Record number : auto

Warehouse name *:
* Field used as the title of the record in the lists. Required information.

AUTHOR : auto (account / login)

DATE OF CREATION :

DATE OF SAVING :

PUBLICATION ON LINE: yes/no

STATUS OF PROGRESS :
Complete record
Record drafting in progress

INFORMATION ABOUT THE STATUS OF PROGRESS :

 

 

Résumé / general comment

This text-entry field allows gathering and summing up remarkable data on the treated building.

 

 

Attestation

This section lists the elements (archaeological remains, literary source, inscription, toponymy) that have revealed the existence of a warehouse. Several boxes can be ticked. For texts and epigraphy, reference and quotation must be given.

Archaeological remains
Text
Reference :
Quotation :

Epigraphy
Reference :
Quotation :

Toponymy
Other

Comment :

Additional comment or information :

 

Topographical indications

This section gathers information on the general geographical location of the warehouse.

The fields «Ancient name» and «Common name» denotes the warehouse. The name of the «modern site» must be entered in French or English. The section «current administrative entity» must mention a region (ex: Lazio, Campania), and possibly a department separated by a comma (ex: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Bouches-du-Rhône).

To facilitate the search, for all the names of sites, follow the Chronique du BCH for Greece, the Blue Guide for Egypt, and for Italy see the names in French cited in bibliographies (for ex.: Métaponte, Tarente, Locres Epizéphyrienne).

Ancient name :
Common name :
Ancient site :
Modern site :
Locality :
Current Country :
Current administrative entity :

 

Map location

Thanks to the Google Maps tool, you can georeference the studied warehouse by dragging the marker on the map. To change the scale, move the cursor placed on the top left of the window. The «satellite» view often allows a much more precise location.

Drag the marker on the map to choose the location of the site

Latitude :
Longitude :
(In decimal degrees)

 

 

Description of location

This section specifies the warehouse’s location in the city or in rural context and its natural or architectural environment.

Example for the description of the location of the Horrea Epagathiana and Epaphroditiana at Ostia, Context: x city; Near: x River; Situation: x central; Additional comments or information: Building located in Via degli Horrea Epagathiana west of the Capitol. It borders on the west with the Piccolo Mercato, on the north with the horrea (Reg. I. Is. VIII. 2) and on the south with the Casette Repubblicane.
 

Context

Rural zone
City
Military camp
Port
Unknown

Near

River
Sea
Major road

Situation

Central
Outlying
Isolated
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Fonction

Additional comments or information: possibility to add text-entry details on the criteria for determining the function of the warehouse.

Civil
Military
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Ownership

Additional comments or information: possibility to add text-entry details on the criteria for identifying the ownership of the warehouse.

State
City
Private Owner
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Current situation

Accessible
Partially accessible
Inaccessible
Reburied
Destroyed
Unlocated
Unspecified / not documented

Archaeological exploration in progress
Heavily restored

Additional comment or information :

 

Chronology

The construction and operating date of a warehouse is written in the form of a period that is ticked by making use of the following list :
Pre-Archaic (-1050-700)
Archaic (-700-480)
Classical (-480-323)
Hellenistic (-323-30)
Republican (-509-27)
Imperial (-27 to 284 advent of Diocletian)
Late Antiquity (284 to 600)

More than one period can be selected.

The exact date of construction will be entered in the text-entry field «Precise dating».

Checkboxes (multiple choice) allow one to provide the dating criteria of the building. If dating is established on the basis of epigraphic stamps on bricks, the box «epigraphic» will be ticked. If the style of a mosaic or a painting can suggest dating, the box «excavation data» will be ticked.

Epoque

Pre-Archaic
Archaic
Classical
Hellenistic
Imperial
Late Antiquity (from the fourth century)
Unspecified / not documented

Precise dating

Dating criteria

Epigraphic
Building technics
Non-epigraphic stamps
Excavation data
Textual data
Iconography

Additional comment or information

 

 

Dimensions

«Covered area» allows one to specify, using a checkbox, if the surface mentioned in the text-entry box is the entire surface covered by the building or whether it represents only the uncovered part.

Known surface

Covered area

Complete
Partial
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information

 

Planimetric typology and plan

1. This section describes the general features (in broad outline) of the plan of the building (presence or absence of a courtyard and organization of rooms).

2. This section allows you to link a plan: : choose the one that gathers the most information about the studied building. The more detailed plans will be listed in the section «documentation».

To link a document with a record, initially you need to complete a record for this document by clicking on «related documents» in the horizontal menu at the top of the page.

Warning !!Before switching to «related documents», REMEMBER TO SAVE THE RECORD, otherwise the content of sections will be lost.

Then, go back to the site record, click on «link a new plan» and select the desired document from the list that appears.
 

Planimetric typology

Central courtyard plan
Rooms joined side by side
Hangar / rooms
Plan without courtyard
Rooms joined side by side
Hangar / rooms / gallery or nave
Single room
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

Plan

Link a new plan

List of linked plans

 

 

Attested building materials

Stone
Wood
Clay
Terracotta
Metal
Other
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Building techniques

The text-entry section «Additional comments or information» allows giving details on the building technique used. To facilitate the search, the types of masonry will be entered with their Latin name: opus caementicium, opus mixtum opus africanum ...

Rubble stonework
Ashlar stonework
Perishable materials
Composite
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Decor

A classic facade arrangement (not ornate architectural elements) is not regarded as decor.

Presence of decors

Yes
No
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Facilities

Raised floors
Courtyard
Shop
Water supply and/or water storage facilities
Drainage / sewage disposal
Coatings
Mezzanine
Silos
Hangar
Storerooms
Pithoi / dolia
Stairs or ramp
Railings
Windows
Inside partition walls
Closing system
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Presence of a storey

Yes
No
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Access

A gate can be defined as a driveway access by its set-up (access conditions), the presence of cart tracks ... In the absence of such evidence, a gate whose width is greater than 2 m will be considered as a driveway.

Single door
Multiple doors
Access unknown
Preserved doorstep(s)

Access typology

Pedestrian
Driveway
Unidentifiable

Additional comment or information :

 

Stored products

The nature of stored products can be known about through direct evidence or be a hypothesis that needs to be discussed, otherwise the unspecified box will be ticked. The text-entry box «comment» allows one to mention arguments which speak in favour of storage of a certain type of products, to specify the type of stored products (cereals, wheat, oil ...) and to provide information on ceramic containers (typology).

Solid food products
Liquid food products
Liquid food products
Unspecified

Additional comment or information :

 

Functional typology

Origin

Warehouse from the outset
Building reconverted
Unspecified / not documented

Functional typology

Storage only
Composite
Sales
Production
Residential
Unspecified / not documented

Additional comment or information :

 

Bibliography

To add a bibliographic reference to a record:

- check if the reference has already been entered in the alphabetical list of authors that appears by clicking on «link a new bibliography». If the desired reference is available, click on «add» next to the desired reference.

- If the desired reference does not appear in this list, you must first create it by filling in a bibliographic record (menu "bibliographic record" at the top of the page).

Warning !!Before switching to «related documents», REMEMBER TO SAVE THE RECORD, otherwise the content of sections will be lost.

After completing a bibliographic record go back to the site record, click on «link a new bibliography», and click on «add» next to the desired reference.

List of linked bibliography

 

 

Documentation

To link a document with a record:

1. Create and complete a record for this document by clicking on «related documents» in the horizontal menu at the top of the page.

Warning !! Before switching to «related documents», REMEMBER TO SAVE THE RECORD, otherwise the content of sections will be lost.

2. Go back to the site record, click on «link a new document» and select the desired document from the list that appears.

List of documents liés

 

 

Web links

This section allows completing information provided in the record by mentioning websites related to the studied building.
URL 1 :
URL 2 :
URL 3 :
URL 4 :
URL 5 :