Mensa ponderaria (VII,7,31)

Near the produce market and built into the east wall of the temple of Apollo, active beginning in the late 2nd cent. BC, this was the public office to control weights and measures, gauged according to the local Oscan system, later standardized to the Augustan system as noted in the inscription engraved on the front (approximately 20 BC). It consists of two stacked limestone benches, each with cavities corresponding to the different measurements, and with a hole at the bottom through which pass the product measured.