Wall painting from Stabiae showing harbour with pilae, 1st centuryPilae from Portus Julius, Baiae
Pilae (singular pila) is the Latin word the ancient Romans used for "piers", "piles" or "pylons", vertical pillars often used to support structures such as hypocausts.
Pilae were also used in concrete piers in the Gulf of Pozzuoli at Baiae, Misenum, and Nisida. These are illustrated in a 1st-century fresco from Stabiae.
Ancient glass flasks have been found that illustrate the Puteoli breakwaters with the inscription "pilae".[1][2][3][4]
^S.E.Oscrow "The topography of Puteoli and Baiae on the eight glass flasks" Puteoli, 1979, p 77-140
^CIL X 1640, 1641, opus pilarum of the harbour at Puteoli
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were the ordinary materials. Small rudely shaped figures of wool, known as pilae, were also hung up in the same way as the oscilla. The festivals at which...
south by a double row of pilae in the sea running toward the projection opposite Punta Pennata and from the north by three pilae running south from the...
ceiling of the hypocaust was raised above the ground by pillars, called pilae stacks, supporting a layer of tiles, followed by a layer of concrete, then...
Indo-European Culture (Taylor & Francis, 1997), p. 280. Nantonos, 2004. "respicio pilae mediae, quae stabuli trabes sustinebat, in ipso fere meditullio Eponae deae...
niches (loculi) were dug. These loculi, generally laid out in sequences (pilae) one above the other from floor or waist level, could each contain one or...
hypocaust system extant in this photograph has survived today as the modern pilae stacks are replicas of the originals, which were taken by souvenir hunters...
Nennius's Historia Brittonum tells that a group of boys were playing at ball (pilae ludus). The origin of this account is either Southern England or Wales....
astonishing advantages of pozzolana volcanic ash of Campania in the setting of pilae and concrete buildings in submerged or partially submerged conditions. Hadrian...
west house. The most unusual feature of this west bath suite is that the pilae in the underfloor hypocaust heating system were built from curved roof tiles...
public or private. The floor was raised above the ground by pillars, called pilae stacks, with a layer of tiles, then a layer of concrete, then another of...
enemy were within range of the Romans he gave the order to hurl a volley of pilae. Going to another part of the field, he found his men already fighting....
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Latin poem of 95 lines on a rural cricket match. It was called In Certamen Pilae (On a Ball Game) and it was published in his Musae Juveniles. It was during...
and the laconicum where the floors were supported on pillars of tiles or pilae. The hot combustion gases from the stoke-room furnaces circulated under...
beneath the floor of a room to be heated was supported on robust pillars (pilae), usually made of small, square bricks mortared together, so that the heat...
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