<p>A row of spacious <i>tabernae</i> (shops and stalls) nearly 50 m long stretched along the N slope of the Caelius Mons, just W of the apse of SS. Quattro Coronati (Colini 290-91, pl. 16 U; Pavolini 72-76). Built in <i>opus reticulatum</i> with a limited use of brick, the structure dates to the early-Imperial period (Colini 290). Fragments of walls along the rear of the shops indicate that the building joined other structures to the NW, though the form of these is unknown. Portions of walls in front of the <i>tabernae</i> suggest that they faced onto a second row of shops, and perhaps served as a market building (Colini 291; contra, Pavolini who refers to the structure as an <i>insula</i>). Note that these <i>tabernae</i> extend into the hypothetical course of Colini’s *Vicus Statae Matris, thus excluding the adoption of this 2nd-c. A.D. street plan for the Augustan era (Colini 291).</p>