MARKET

From the temple of Sérapis, the street that climbs leads to the market line on the left. Restored in Roman times, this market was offered to the city in the year 9-8 BC by one of its inhabitants, Hannibal Tapapius Rufus, rich descendant of a Phoenician family. The large esplanade hosts two circular panels surrounded by partiellement porticos porticos.

We sold goods and other goods in one, perishable foodstuffs in the other. In front of the first kiosk, two "audit benches" were used to measure quantities sold by pouring oil and grain into the holes set for this purpose. At the end of the esplanade, the fish were sold on the marble stalls of the beautiful feet adorned with dolphins or griffins.

We will note a tablet of the measures that took place in the third century BC: Punic (51,5 cm), Roman foot (29,6 cm), angled angled (52,5 cm). The original tablet is at the site museum.