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 Fig. 113. The Roman Forum and its Public Buildings in THE Early Empire. (After Luckenbach) We look across the ancient market place [F, p. 249) to the Tiber with its ships at the head of navigation. On each side of the market place, where we see the buildings {E, /, and Z>, G, I), were once rows of little wooden booths for selling meat, fish, and other merchandise. Especially after the beginning of the Carthaginian wars, these were displaced by fine buildings, like the basilica hall D, built not long after 200 B.C. Note the square ground plans (/, M) and the arches showing Etruscan influence, the Attic roofs and colonnades and the clerestory windows {D, E) copied from the Hellenistic cities. For fuller description see Breasted's " Ancient Times," p. 608, footnote ; also Fig. 247 and p. 609, footnote