Reconsidering the Aquincum macellum: analogies and origins
Reconsidering the Aquincum macellum: analogies and origins

Summary/Abstract: The function of the majority of the Roman buildings in the Civil Town of Aquincum aside from the, more or less, easily recognizable bath-buildings and the market building or macellum last. This unknown structure was first excavated between 1882 and 1884, and thanks to its typical ground-plan soon came to the foreground of archaeological research. Although the market has only been excavated 5 times over the more than 100 years of excavations in the Civil Town, several attempts have been made to reconstruct it and interpret the function of its various rooms based on hypotheses and analogies from similar structures else where in the Roman Empire. The real breakthrough came in 1965, when control excavations were carried out within the complex, although the find material remains unpublished to the present day.

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