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=== XII: [[Regio XII Piscina Publica]] ===
Regio XII took its name from the [[Piscina Publica]], a monument that disappeared during the Empire. It had the high ground where the church of ''[[San Saba, Rome|San Saba]]'' is at present, plus its ramifications towards the [[Appian Way]], where the [[Baths of Caracalla|Caracalla's baths]] were.
 
In the 180s, a bank and exchange for [[Christians]] operated in the area.<ref>Peter Lampe, ''Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries'' (Continuum, 2003), p. 42 [https://books.google.com/books?id=vOoxGmc1DGAC&pg=PA42&dq=%22Piscina+publica%22&hl=en&ei=iw-FTJjyN4ibnAe2md3WAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=39&ved=0COYBEOgBMCY#v=onepage&q=%22Piscina%20publica%22&f=false online.]</ref>