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door reaches #17, complete with two dolia sunk in the ground, which also is connected to the
main bakery at #12. Dipinti at #17 advertise the complex: pistor for the main bakery centered on
the LO, and pistor dulciarius for the rooms associated with the SO. The front rooms at #12, 13-
13A, #17 were probably retail space for the sale of the baked goods. Entrance #14 simply
accesses a stairway to upper-story rooms.
The corner shop #15-16 is connected on the E to the baking complex via #17. Here in
December of 1853 was found a bronze lamp with a plaque hanging underneath that announced
the name of the shopkeeper: D·Ivni Proqvli. It is not clear what was made or sold in this shop, or
how close the relationship was with the bakery complex behind. On the S wall of the shop are
two niches, both were once painted and may have been shrines. At the street corner is a street
fountain and a castellum aquae of the aqueduct system.
References
[Bakery I.4.12-14+17]: CTP IIIA, 8-9; Dwyer, PG 1980 (5), 4-5; Mayeske 1979, 46; Mayeske 1972,
84-86; Della Corte 1954, 213, #500; Fiorelli 1875, 66-67; Fiorelli 1873, 68-69; PAH (2), 576-577 (24
Ago - 12 Set. 1853), 589-592 (16-30 Mar. 1854).
[Taberna I.4.15-16]: Eschebach 1982, 23-24; Larsen 1982; Della Corte 1954, 213, #499; Boyce 1937,
25, #32; Fiorelli 1875, 67; Fiorelli 1873, 68-69; Minervini BAN (2), 118; PAH II, 587-588 (9-17 Dic.
1853).
Data
A) Total area: 383.7 Nodes: 211.2 Connectors: 56.1 Static spaces: 116.4
B) Total # spaces: 14 # Nodes: 4 # Connectors: 4 # Static spaces: 6
9. I.4.18, I.4.19, I.4.20-21, Tabernae, (work)shops (Figs. 2.3, 5.2, 5.13, 5.40-5.42)
Synopsis
Shop #18 has a large front room (a) and a smaller back room (b), which Fiorelli calls a
cubiculum. A stair on the E (no longer extant) led to upper-floor rooms, the doorway for one of
which still survives, and a storage niche is cut into the back wall (Fig. 5.40). Della Corte identifies
this shop with the dissignator Sabinus, who recommends the election of M. Epidius Sabinus in a
lengthy notice near the entrance to this shop. Michaelis mentions the finds from this shop, which
include a bronze vase, small terracotta and glass vessels, and "un piccolo [terracotta] fornello in
mezzo della stanza". No fornello can be seen in the shop today; it was probably a portable
cooking device of some kind (akin to those pictured in Figs. 1.10-1.11). The find does attest to the
use of compact, portable cooking appliances in the limited space of a small (work)shop.
The shop at #19 has front and back rooms (a, b) of comparable size and shape; Fiorelli
again identifies (b) as a cubiculum. A stair in the front room leads to the upper floor, over a
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