Horrea Lolliana

Courtyard-type late-Republican warehouse complex in the S *Emporium area, known primarily from a large fragment of the Severan Marble Plan (Rodríguez Almeida, Forma 106, pl. 18, frag. 25; for the name, e.g., CIL VI 4226: VILICVS EX HORREIS LOLLIANIS) since archaeological evidence for the horrea is scanty (Coarelli 44). The completely preserved label on the Marble Plan makes the identification of the structure certain. This fragment is firmly located S of, and downstream from, the Emporium area, where the Tiber bends to the SE (Gatti, esp. fig. on p. 94).On the lower part of the fragment, the Horrea Lolliana are represented as organized around two courtyards with porticoes. The two units are dissimilar in the overall size of the courtyards and the arrangement of the rooms around them. The horrea are linked to the *Tiber by means of a wide quay and stairs. On the upper half of the fragment, a narrow set of courtyard structures and a small bath-house “similar to the Stabian baths at Pompei” are shown with the same rectilinear orientation as the horrea (Rickman 112).The construction of the horrea was associated with the gens Lollia, whose commercial relations with Delos are known from epigraphic evidence (Étienne 242 n.45). As for the specific individual from the Lollii family responsible for the construction, Coarelli (43) suggests M. Lollius Palicanus, a follower of Pompey, based upon the slim archaeological evidence suggesting a date of the mid-1st c. B.C. for the structures. Epigraphic evidence demonstrates that the horrea became imperial property at the time of Claudius (Rodríguez Almeida; Coarelli 43).