This is a commercial building, perhaps used for storage. In the second half of the fourth century the street to the east was partially blocked by walls set against insulae II and III, leaving an opening in the middle c. 1.30 wide.

There are three wide doorways in the east facade, one of which was blocked. In the south wall is a minor entrance. The building consists of an east-west running passage in the south part, and two large halls flanking a small room in the north part. The only masonry in the interior consists of a few piers and walls in the central part (opus reticulatum, mixtum, and vittatum).

The exterior walls are Trajanic-Hadrianic, the interior ones Severan. The late restorations in opus vittatum have been dated to the second half of the fourth century.

Plan of the building. North is to the right. Boersma 1985, fig. 84.	Reconstruction drawing of the building, seen from the south-east. Boersma 1985, fig. 120.

In 1984-1985 the building was cleaned. In the blocking on the street the remains of a threshold were found. The floor of the long southern room or corridor consisted of bipedales. In the three northern rooms black-and-white geometric mosaic floors were found, with a coin from 164 AD in the substrate. The mosaics may belong to the middle of the third century.

Photos

The building seen from the east, after the 1984-1985 excavations.
Photo: Petriaggi 1987, fig. 3.

Detail of a black-and-white geometric mosaic. Photo: Klaus Heese.

Detail of a black-and-white geometric mosaic. Photo: Klaus Heese.