In 2008 research continued on the southern sector of the insula of the domus of Via del Miliario and along Via del Grifo. It was established that in this part of the insula three shops faced onto Via del Miliario and thus the residential zone must have been to the back and facing onto the secondary road. The data from the two shops whose stratigraphy was examined ( tabernae 1 and 2) attests their long occupation. The original walls, constructed in some sort of perishable material, probably pisé and wood, were built up against imposing substructures in polygonal masonry. These walls were rebuilt during the 1st century B.C. and used, with many alterations, until a devastating fire put an end to their primary use. After that date, occupation was sporadic, with the ancient rooms being used for a long period for the accumulation and salvaging of materials, some of which valuable. In fact, amongst the finds of this phase in taberna 1 were numerous architectural fragments and an elegant marble statue of Venus of the type “undoing a sandal”. The architectural fragments probably came from the nearby sanctuary of Hercules and the statue from the domus situated in the rear part of the insula.

The structure of taberna 1, well preserved on the whole, was very similar to the other shops facing onto Via del Miliario and Via dei Pilastri. The ground floor space was divided into three, the shop opening onto the road and behind it a large living space and a latrine. A fire ended the use of this structure for commercial purposes, as it did for the adjacent structure to the north, taberna 2, which was only partially excavated. The dating of this catastrophic event may be placed, with a certain amount of precision, in the second half of the 4th century A.D. based on the find of a “hoard” in the burnt layer of taberna 2 comprising over 250 coins (of which 70 date to the reign of Constans II, 337-361).