<p>Stepped ramp ascending the lower slope of the *Palatine at its NW corner; the ramp led from the *Forum Romanum to the level of the Imperial *Nova Via (only after Augustus was it extended further up the hill to the <i>domus Tiberiana</i>: Steinby). Remains of the Republican-era ramp in <i>opus incertum</i> have been recovered just W of the *Atrium Vestae, and they allow for its reconstruction as a series of alternating stairways and landings supported by vaulted substructures, in which <i>tabernae</i> (shops and stalls) were housed (Steinby, <i>LTUR</i>; ead. 1985). The ramp was convincingly associated with the toponym ‘Scalae Graecae’ (known from Servius, <i>ad Aen</i>. 4.646: <i>Graecae scalae</i>; cf. Ov., <i>Fast.</i> 6.395-98) by Coarelli (followed by Steinby). The ramp may also have been known as the *Scalae Anulariae (Steinby, Papi).</p>