Near the neighbourhood houses, or even inside them, some craftsmen had their workshops. Artisans and helpers -whether they were free citizens, metics (immigrants) or slaves- contributed with their work to the city’s development. From the coroplastic workshops in the area, come the fragments of clay moulds used to make figurines.

Sometimes workshops were founded over the ruins of houses destroyed by an enemy invasion or another cause. That is the case of the marble workshop, founded after the Roman invasion in 86 BC. Many fragments of unfinished sculptures and vases, left in various stages of work, have been located in its premises, as well as lead tools f or making wax or clay models.

From the casting pits of a bronze smith’s workshop of the same period come the parts of clay moulds f or bronze statues.

In the following centuries, industrial activity -at least the heavy one- receded and intensified again during the 7th-8th centuries AD and the 11th-12th centuries AD. Then large pottery workshops developed, from which came objects from various stages of the production process, such as the base of the pottery-wheel, the supports and small tripods for stacking the vessels in the kiln or the def ective pot that was never put on the market.