The building |
Description and function |
This building seems to consists of a hall and shops, facing Via dei Dipinti and with a corridor behind. Later a store-room with dolia defossa was added, in the north part of the garden of the Insula dei Dipinti (I,IV). |
Date |
The building was erected in the late-Hadrianic or early-Antonine period (opus mixtum). In the Severan period the store-room was added (opus latericium). |
Nrs. 115-116
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Description |
Nrs. 115 and 116 are cornerstones in the jambs of the doorway leading from Via dei Dipinti to a room (corridor?) to the north of a staircase at the south end. The southern one is as wide as the wall. In the inside of the northern one is a vertical crack. |
Date |
The stones belong to the first building phase. |
Measurements |
Meas. according to VdM, 115: starts at 0.31; l. 0.47, w. 0.33, h. 0.24; 116: starts at 0.36; l. 0.48, w. 0.28, h. 0.24. Visually the stones start at the same height. |
Remarks |
There are no further stones in the facade, which has been relatively well preserved. There may however have been another stone above nr. 116.
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Plan of the building. After SO I.
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