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Building of the latrines
of the Forum
Excavation:
Luso-French mission, 1968.
Available documentation:
Plan stone-to-stone (1/50, published 1/100)
of the Luso-French excavations (Fouilles I * *
, est. III). Revision of the architecture by
Virgílio H. Correia in 1998.
Brief Description:
Building (that perhaps cannot be clarified
as insula), of which the whole extension
is known, annex to the latrines of the Forum. rum.
Bibliography of the excavation:
Fouilles I 149-150, 230 (XXIX), 246 (XLIV).
No other bibliographical references.
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The building of the latrines of the forum is a strange one, being (with
the own latrines) the only interruption to the regular drawing of streets
isolating the great monument. It seems to constitute the survival of the
pre-flavian urban cadastre that, for some reason impossible to be determinated,
was not demolition object of demolition. Its coexistence with a public space
as the latrines is very strange, just as part of its equipment is.
The building had a small front portico, where the door for the main group
of three compartments in a row, opened the central compartment had a floor
of opus signinum adapted to the triclinium placement of the rest
of the building was made up by two compartments of very irregular plant,
probably open to the East.
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