Stores
South of the Road
Excavation:
Direcção Geral dos Monumentos
Nacionais between 1940 and 1944
(Dir. Prof. V. Correia). Other interventions
under the direction of Prof. Jorge Alarcão in
1963.
Available documentation:
Drawing of work of 1967 (all the zone B)
scale 1/200 (aut. Roque Martins), later on
enlarged to 1/100. complements and
annotations, without date, of J. Alarcão.
Architectural reconstitution of Virgílio H.
Correia 1994.
Brief Description:
Building (perhaps not a insula, strictu sensu)
among the insula of the houses of the
swastika and of the house of the skeletons
and the road.
Bibliography of the excavation:
No reports of the works were published.
Cf. Alarcão 1992, 12 and 17.
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The long but narrow building known as " Stores South of the road ", constitutes
one of the most interesting example of civil engineering of Conimbriga,
given its sui generis structure and its urban implantation. Its location
is truly decisive, being part of a very characterized urban intervention
that, certainly in augustan date, surrounded the crossroads formed by the
road Olisipo-Bracara (Lisbon-Braga) and the access to the center of the
town by buildings of commercial character (insula of the aqueduct, House
of the fountains in its first phase, building previous to the House of Cantaber
to East.
The possible restitution of the original phase demonstrates the existence
of a series of five stores opened to the portico of the street and a small
residential unit, the stores being provided with basements whose access
was done by a long criptoportic, aired by windows opened to the back of
the insula, which acces was made by a single stairway located between the
last and penultimate cells (counting from the West), occupying a total area
of 147 m2. This criptoportic was gradually partitioned by walls, partially
filled up and stairways to each basement were created from the store, corresponding
of the ground floor. There are reasons to think that this was a rapid movement,
probably motivated by the inevitable problems of drainage of pluvial and
resurgent waters.
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