Fig. hi. The Roman Forum and its Public Buildings in the

Early Empire. (After Luckenbach)

We look across the ancient market place (F, § 498) to the Tiber with i's
ships at the head of navigation. On each side of the market place (f)<
where we see the buildings and D, G, /), were once rows of Httle

wooden booths for selling meat, fish, and other merchandise. Especially
after the beginning of the Carthaginian wars these were displaced by fine
buildings like the basilica hall D, built not long after 200 B. c. Note the
Attic roofs and colonnades and the clerestory windows of the basilicas
copied from the Hellenistic cities (§ 464), and originally from the Orient
(Fig. 28). It was soon to be adopted as a form for Christian church buildings
(see Fig. 123). See complete key on opposite page, footnote
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