Pirson (173-4) notes that this facade from the eastern bakery westward to the portal was of common tuff, and he comments: "Considering...that the facades visually connected domus and tabernae by presenting them as one architectural complex, an emphasis on unitary ownership seems a more likely motivation. By means of an effective facade, a large unit of property with a grand domus in its centre becam a presentable status-symbol." This analysis coincides well with the conclusions made in the Rental Property analysis.

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