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 THE ROMAN FORUM AND ITS PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN THE EARLY EMPIRE (AFTER LUCKENBACH) We look across the ancient market place (F) to the Tiber with its ships. On each side of the market place, where we see the buildings (, /, and D, G, I), were once rows of little wooden booths for selling meat, fish, and other merchandise. During the period which followed the beginning of the Carthaginian wars these were gradually displaced by fine buildings, like the basilica hall (D), built not long after 200 B.C.