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House of Andercus
Excavation:
Luso-French mission, in the years of
1964 to 1968. Other excavations
exposed part of its limits (the East,
in the street of the House of the Patera
Emanuel) in 1977 (Dir. Prof. J. Alarcão).
These works were object of
regularisation in 1996.
Available documentation:
Plane stone-to-stone (1/50, published
1/100, architecture 1/200) of the
Luso-French excavations
(Fouilles I**, est.). Complementary
excavations of J. Alarcão in 1977
and of Virgílio H. Correia in 1996
study in a general plan 1/100.
Brief description:
insula of residential character
(majority?) that we know the
limits (except the South). The designation
"house" is imposed by the
epigraphy (Fouilles II, no. 99).
Bibliography of the excavation:
Fouilles I, 65-85, 135-143, 155-165, 194
(XV), 242 (XLII). There is no publication of the works of 1977. There
is a report of the works of 1996 (Virgílio H. Correia) in the archives
of MMC. We don't know other bibliographical references.
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The building (that an epigraphic discovery named
house of Andercus) is located between the forum and the baths, and the progress
of the Luso-French excavations allowed to identify its entire perimeter
(except the South limit). The structures and its history are insufficiently
known.
The part of the facade turning to the square of the forum was preceded,
on the occasion of its construction, of a porticof pillars (not of columns)
that was drawn in such a way as to cover the facade of this insula and the
insula of the Patera Emanuel. Seemingly, this porticwas razed when the flavian
remodelling of the forum extended South in such a way that the entrance
of the square of the forum for the street of the baths was narrowed given
the constriction that this portic represented. In this zone, a recess in
the facade of the insula leads to imagine some urban device, maybe a fountain.
Contemporary perhaps of this period is the decision of closing completely
the two doors of the stores that opened to the portic and the one of the
other two that already opened for the street of the baths. In these last
ones, though, the closing was not complete as in the first ones, in a first
phase the opening, continued to exist, just for a door of normal span. These
combined facts make that the whole of the insula, only, four residential
units are identified, and two of them very incompletely.
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