ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 113 |
| AG1980 #
| 113 |
| PM1960 #
| 113 |
| Slab #
| VIII-4 |
| Adjoins
| 13r |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| 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 lines on this small fragment depict a rectangular room with a doorway along the bottom edge, and surrounding spaces on the other three sides.
Identification: Rooms between the thermae Traiani and the thermae Titi. In 1995, E. Rodríguez-Almeida joined this fragment to fr.
13r. The shape of the fractured surfaces between the fragments matches together, and the marble veining, thickness, rough back surfaces, and incisions correspond to confirm the join (Rodríguez-Almeida 2001, pp. 61-63, figs. 1-4). With Rodríguez-Almeida's identification and location of fr. 13r on the southern hemicycle of the outer precinct of the Baths of Trajan (AG 1980, pp. 93-94), fr. 113 further extends the line of rooms in the area between the Baths of Trajan and the Baths of Titus.
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| Like the majority of FUR fragments, this piece was discovered in the garden behind the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in 1562. From here, it was transferred to and stored in the Palazzo Farnese. The fragment was later used as building material in a 17th-century Farnese construction, the Secret Garden, and it was rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden near the Via Giulia were demolished. Since then, it has been stored with the other FUR fragments in various places: In the storerooms of the Commissione Archeologica (1888/1898-1903), in the Antiquarium Comunale (1924-1939), in the Capitoline museums (1939-1955), in the Braschi palace (1955-1998), and since 1998 in the Museo della Civiltà Romana in EUR under the auspices of the Archaeological Superintendency of Rome (the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma)(PM 1960, p. 120). N.B. PM 1960 does not indicate the whereabouts of the fragment between 1903 and 1924.
Text by David Koller and
Tina Najbjerg.
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