| The building |
| Description and function |
This building was linked with and related to the Serapeum to to the south. The facade on Via della Foce has been excavated only partially. Behind a porticus two shops can be recognized. In the eastern one a bar was installed, of which all traces have by now diappeared. |
| Date |
Hadrianic. |
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Nrs. 590-592
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| Description |
Three cornerstones have been preserved in the two eastern piers. The eastermost pier was set on top of a huge travertine block. A tiny room or structure was set against the north side of this pier (not depicted on the plan).
In the north-west corner of the easternmost pier is a low stone, the north side of which is partly covered by the later structure (590). The west side is partly covered with a thick layer of plaster. In the north-east corner of the second pier from the east is a low stone (591). It has a hole with metal in the north side. In the north-west corner of the same pier is a stone at mid height. Both in the north and west side is a hole with metal.
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| Date |
The stones belong to the first building phase. |
| Measurements |
VdM's team provides no measurements for 590. The ground below the other two does not correspond with an ancient level. Meas. for 591: starts at 0.48, l. 0.33, w. 0.40, h. 0.24; 592: starts at 0.85, l. 0.18, w. 0.35, h. 0.23. |
| Remarks |
| There are no stones in the third, westernmost pier, which seems to belong to a different phase, because it is made of yellow bricks, contrary to the others, made of red bricks. On top of the north-west corner of the structure that was set against the easternmost pier is a damaged travertine stone, perhaps reused as building material.
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Plan of the building. After SO I.
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