BASILICA ARGENTARIA
apparently the headquarters for the sale of vessels
of bronze, mentioned only in Reg. in
Region VIII, between the temple of
Concord and the barracks of the Fifth Cohort of Vigiles. It was probably
between the forum of Trajan and the east slope of the Capitoline hill,
on the
CLIVUS ARGENTARIUS (q.v.). In Reg. app. the basilica Vascellaria
is mentioned, but not the Argentaria, and this, together with the fact
that artificers in bronze were called
argentarii vascularii on the inscriptions, make it possible that the same building is referred to under the two
names (
Jord. i. 2. 438;
ii. 216, 458;
DE i. 978;
RE ii. 706).
