Modena, the Roman Mutina, was founded as a 'colonia' with 2,000 male settlers in 183 B.C., and despite various misfortunes became one of the chief towns in the Lombard plain.

One part of this town shows a row of long narrow blocks measuring about 20 x 160 metres (fig.

14, plan A), with a second row of shorter blocks of the same width and about half the length (plan B).

These blocks have been much marred and curtailed by the inevitable changes of town life, but their symmetry cannot be accidental, and if they date back, as is quite possible, to Roman days, they may be put beside the Sixth Region of Pompeii which contains two rows of similar blocks.[52] [52] Fig.

14 is taken from Zuccagni-Orlandini (1844).