Insula
to North of Baths
Excavation:
Luso-French mission, 1966-1968.
Available documentation:
Plane stone-to-stone (1/50, published 1/100,
architecture 1/200) of the Luso-French
excavations (Fouilles I**, est. XXXIX)
Brief Description:
Insula completely dug.
Bibliography of the excavation:
Fouilles I, 65-85, 135-143, 155-165,
190 (X), 229 (XXVII), 232 (XXXII),
237 (XL).
Other references:
Alarcão 1985, 36 and fig. 52; id. 1988,
188 - fig. 60; id. 1992, 36-41; Alarcão
et al. 1978, 460-461. ibid. 1979, 889 and
fig. 5; Etienne et al. 1966, 13 and est. IV,
Oleiro et al. 1966, 449.
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The insula to North of the baths was one of the buildings that was more
severely affected by the flavian urban modification, that sacrificed a substantial
part of this construction to create the square to North of the baths. The
character of the building didn't substantially suffer alterations and continued
to offer a facade of stores to the street of the baths (in front of the
insula of the phallus vase) and the inner part of the building, open to
West, of complex internal structure.
The centre of the inner part of the insula was a space with columns, that
had been a patio in the first phase covered, by a tiller and in the second
phase, maintained the columns but reduced the open space to an impluvium.
For this space two pairs of compartments opened, on the North side , to
the South a great room that gave access to another one, and to East two
open compartments and a niche of unknown function. The state of conservation
of the structures is rather poor, and the identification of the functionalities
of the spaces is impossible.
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