While in line with block 7326, the level of 7323 is much lower. The quality of tufo seems somewhat different, and it is much less degraded. It seems improbable, given the high overall quality of ashlar stonemasonry in Gabii, that such uneven and disparate blocks would have been included in the same wall, or at least not both deposited at the same time. It is entirely possible that at some point a wall on this axis may have existed, but it probably was either built of entirely spoliated materials by a somewhat incompetent stonemason or 1 or more of the blocks were never a part of a wall and were never intended to rise far above the floor level (7323 seems the most likely candidate for this due to its well-worked top face, regular shape, and high-quality stone). Moreover, any wall made using these three blocks seems entirely redundant on the basis of the very close, parallel Opus Reticulatum wall 7374. If these two walls were standing at the same time the space between them would seemingly be almost entirely useless, especially once they were faced with plaster, with less than 50cm space between them. An exceptionally narrow corridor, at best. Another possibility is that 7323 may have been sunk into the floor in phase with the tufo slab floor's construction, in similar fashion to the square tufo blocks sunk in the cocciopesto floor elsewhere in Area H. But the tufo slab floor is far sturdier than cocciopesto, so the need for greater sturdiness is doubtful. Secondly, the relatively long, narrow rectangular shape of 7323 makes it seemingly much less useful than the broad square blocks used elsewhere in H.
View from west
Room H-15