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type (4) (i.e. horseshoe-shaped burners) is built into the end of the counter. 47 Most have evidence
for cooking and serving wares either in the same space as the counter itself, or in an adjacent
space. 48 These artifacts include a tripod (I.10.13), ceramic cooking pots, colanders, mixing bowls,
plates, bowls, glass containers and cups, bronze cauldrons and skillets. Finally, each of the three
lunch counters connected to certain houses (I.4.3, I.8.1, I.10.2) possess the lone fixed cooking
installation in the house. Owners of houses with lunch counters apparently made the most of
their ready-made hearths, evidence for symbiosis between domestic and business activity.
Diners have more variety than lunch counters in the kind, number and arrangement of
their cooking installations. 49 Three diners have sub-type (4) hearths built into their serving
counters. 50 Just as common is a low hearth of sub-type (1) that is located to one side of the
counter or in a different room altogether. 51 At least one diner, I.8.15-16, has two: a hearth at the
front counter and a kitchen located in a back room between two dining areas. 52 The proprietor
apparently decided to build separate cooking facilities for customers off the street and for those
dining within. Three diners are connected to houses; in one (I.8.8-9) there is absolutely no
evidence for cooking elsewhere in the house; the other houses have some evidence for a
secondary kitchen. 53 Houses with attached diners, like houses with lunch counters, retained
some dependency on those cooking facilities to serve the rest of the house.
Houses with or without (work)shops
Casa piccola The smallest houses generally have only one cooking area. 54 Cooking
installations are generally simple; in five of nine cases they are a solid masonry stove. 55 Cooking
areas are correspondingly small, never exceeding 10 m 2 (mean 7.6 m 2 ). There was not much
47 I.4.3 has a separate hearth of sub-type (1) (with a horseshoe-shaped burner at one end) located in the
atrium of the connected house (Fig. 5.8). See above, pp. 78-79 for the hearth typology.
48 No artifacts have been published for I.4.27.
49 The counters also vary in size, shape and material, from the short straight counter of I.4.11 to the L-shaped
wooden counter in I.6.8-9 to the large ∏-shaped counters of I.8.8, I.8.15-16 and I.9.4.
50 I.8.15-16, I.9.4, I.9.11.
51 I.8.8, same room; I.4.11, I.7.13-14, different room. Similar is I.6.8-9, which has a stove of sub-type (3)
located in the corner of the atrium immediately behind the front room and its counter.
52 Two other diners (I.7.13-14, I.9.11) may also have had secondary cooking areas, but the evidence is
insecure; neither has been published, and the latter has not been completely excavated.
53 Identifications of second cooking areas in the other two houses are not completely secure; I.9.3-4 may
have another cooking area in the back of the house in area (10), and I.6.8-9 has a stove of sub-type (3) in its
garden.
54 One exception is I.9.8, in which part of a brazier was found in the atrium outside the kitchen, but it is not
certain that the brazier was used, and not just stored, in the atrium.
55 Two others (I.4.1-3, I.10.2-3) have hearths used in attached lunch counters. The cooking installation in
I.8.18 has disintegrated since its excavation, and I.7.2-3 had no cooking installations, simply a tripod and
bronze cauldron together with ceramic and bronze jugs.
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