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with a lunch counter built into its facade will have its address appear in both categories (3) and
(4). Categories are further subdivided on the basis of physical features, number of rooms or
ground area, e.g. differentiating between lunch-counters and diners, or breaking down the broad
spectrum of houses into small, medium and large:
Category No. of buildings Area (m 2 )
1. (work)shops, 1 room 7 9.6 - 30.1
(work)shops, 2 rooms 7 38.6 - 56.1
(work)shops, 3 or more rooms 7 45.0 - 69.7
2. (work)shop-houses 13 85.4 - 356.9
3. commercial eating establishments (lunch counters) 7 19.4 - 45.7
commercial eating establishments (diners) 7 72.9 - 190.9
commercial eating establishments (bakery) 1 383.7
4. small houses (case piccole) 9 88.3 - 274.9
medium houses (case medie) 18 259.1 - 614.0
large houses (case grandi) 5 709.3 - 2502.8
Table 3.2: Ground areas and counts for building categories in this thesis
Total sample: 81 functionally distinct units, within 75 buildings.
While the ground areas for categories overlap, the buildings that belong to each category and
sub-category have more in common with each other than with buildings outside their category.
It is essentially a multivariate cluster analysis. The criteria for defining each category follows; see
Fig. 2.2 for a distribution map of the building categories, and Fig. 3.1 for a histogram of the
categories according to ground area.
(1) (Work)shops 5
It is not often possible to know whether a building was used for retail, production or
both. Thus, shops (tabernae) and workshops (officinae) are considered together under a single
heading. A wide variety of items or services were produced and/or sold at these locations,
including metal wares, pottery and the cleaning of cloth. 6 Shops that handled the preparation,
production, and sale of foodstuffs are excluded from this category; because of their special role in
nourishing the populace, they are considered separately as: 'commercial eating establishments'.
(Work)shops are the smallest and simplest buildings. They take up 28% of the number of
buildings in the sample while covering only 4% of the total ground area (Table 3.2, Fig. 3.1). As a
whole, they average 40.4 m 2 and 2.7 spaces. They can be sub-divided into three groups of equal
5 Examples of (work)shops from the study sample include: I.4.4, I.4.7, I.4.8, I.4.10, I.4.18, I.4.19, I.4.20-21,
I.4.23-24, I.4.26, I.6.1, I.6.3, I.6.10, I.6.12, I.7.4, I.7.6, I.7.15, I.7.17, I.8.7, I.10.5-6, I.10.9, I.10.12.
6 Metal wares seem tohave been produced and sold at I.6.1, I.6.3 and I.6.12, pottery may have been sold at
I.7.4, and small fullonicae operated at I.4.7, I.4.26 and I.10.5-6.
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