Commercial Buildings

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  • Created on: 10-04-17 10:13
Name all the Commercial Buildings?
The Macellum, Eumachia Buildings, Weights and Measures and Granaries
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What was The Macellum?
Public market where fish and meat were sold, fish was cleaned here and the circular roof covered a large table cooled by a fountain
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What was the Eumachia Building?
The headquarters of the fuller's guild, cloth sold, one of the biggest and most ornate buildings in the forum
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Who was Eumachia?
A rich priestess, she had the building built as a gift to the city to help her son's election campaign
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What were the Weights and Measures office?
Different produce measured here, low bench with different sized hollows, trapdoor would bag the measured amount
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What were the Granaries?
The horrea, cereals and dried pulses sold here, had not yet been completely restored after the earthquake of AD62
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What was The Macellum?

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Public market where fish and meat were sold, fish was cleaned here and the circular roof covered a large table cooled by a fountain

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What was the Eumachia Building?

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Who was Eumachia?

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What were the Weights and Measures office?

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