ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 103(*) |
| AG1980 #
| 103 |
| PM1960 #
| 103 |
| Slab #
| VII-11 |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| true |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| rough |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The fragment depicts the front corner of a pseudo-dipteral temple, apparently octastyle (though the expected two central columns along the front of the cella are missing). The entrance into the cella is visible at lower right. A crepis of four steps lies along the long side of the building on the left. The walls and columns are represented in outline; this area was recessed and originally filled with minium. On the Plan, mainly temples were highlighted in this manner (Reynolds 1996, pp. 75-77).
Identification: Aedes Faustinae This fragment, together with 70a, 70b and 70c, has recently been identified as part of the Temple of the Deified Faustina on the Palatine, rededicated in 221 CE to Elagabalus (Cecamore 1999; on the Temple of Elagabalus, see LTUR III, pp. 10-11). The identification is supported by the inscription on 70a and 70c, comparison with the second century CE structures excavated in the Vigna Barberini on the Palatine (Cecamore 1999, p. 330, fig. 11), close study of the original location on the wall of the dowel hole (tassello) on the back of 70a and 70c, and the similarity between these fragments and known parts of slab VII-11 of the Plan, to which this location corresponds. This temple building stood at the center of a large porticus that had a double colonnade on three sides (Cecamore 1999, p. 320, fig. 5; parts of the colonnade are depicted on fragments 70a and 70b).
Significance Together with frs. 70a, b and c, this fragment was key to identifying the excavated remains on the Palatine as belonging to the Temple of Faustina.
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| Like the majority of FUR fragments, this piece was discovered in 1562 in a garden behind the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. From here, it was transferred to the Palazzo Farnese and stored there. The fragment was later used as building material in the 17th c. construction of the Farnese familys Giardino Segreto (Secret Garden) near the Via Giulia, and was rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden were demolished. Since then, it has been stored with the other known FUR fragments in various places: the storerooms of the Commissione Archeologica (1888/1898-1903), the Antiquarium Comunale (1924-1939), the Capitoline Museums (1939-1955), the Palazzo Braschi (1955-1998), and since 1998 in the Museo della Civiltà Romana in EUR under the auspices of the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma. (This fragments history corresponds to Iter E as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.) N.B. PM 1960 does not reveal the whereabouts of the fragment between 1903 and 1924.
Text by Tina Najbjerg and Jennifer Trimble |
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| KEYWORDS
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| temple, palatine, columns, cella |
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