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==Architecture== The building itself had a facade of [[peperino]] and [[travertine]] blocks. The interior vaults are of [[concrete]].{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} Its great corridor, {{convert|67|m|abbr=on}} long, raised {{convert|15|m|abbr=on}} above the forum on a massive substructure, is still partly preserved. This corridor was lighted through a series of arches divided by semi-detached columns of the Doric order, the earliest example of this class of decoration, which is in the Theatre of Marcellus, the Colosseum, and all the great amphitheatres throughout the Roman Empire, constituted the decorative treatment of the wall surface and gave scale to the structure.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=341}} The facade faced the back of the [[Temple of Concord]] in the [[Forum (Roman)|forum]] and consisted of three levels. The first story was a large and tall fortified wall with a single door and only small windows near the top to light the interior, forum level rooms. The second story featured a [[Doric order|Doric]] arcade (partially preserved) and the third, no longer extant story, had a high [[Corinthian order]] colonnade.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} The upper floors of this structure were much changed in the 13th century, when the ''Palazzo dei Senatori'' was built.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=341}} Some scholars, such as Filippo Coarelli, in the past, have suggested that the Tabularium itself is unattested to in any literary sources. Furthermore, its function and purpose has been the subject of debate. The unity of the main structure does however suggest that the building was at least initially conceived to serve a singular purpose. To illustrate the complexity of the building, Filippo Coarelli has stated that a particular annex of the Aerarium Saturni was constructed specifically to house metal ingots and minted Republican coins. Recent evidence, in the form of six military diplomas dated from 85 to 88 AD, confirms the existence of the Tabularium in its renowned form. Coarelli has suggested that the Tabularium can be dated precisely to 78 BC, although construction began many years prior and almost certainly prior to the death of Sulla. The building itself is in many ways intrinsically tied to the politics of Sulla, especially in regard to the temple substructure. The structure was considered such an enduring masterpiece of late Republican architecture, that a funerary inscription for the architect, commissioned by Lutatius Catalus, was created and preserved in a courtyard of the hospital of the Fatebenefatelli, on Tiber island. The inscription reads as follows: "Lucius Cornelius, son of Lucius, of the Voturia tribe, chief engineer to Q. Lucius Catulus when he was consul, architect (to him) when he was censor."<ref>{{cite journal |author=Filippo Coarelli |title=Substructio et Tabularium |journal=Papers of the British School at Rome |volume=78 |year=2010 |page=123}}</ref>
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