ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 114 |
| AG1980 #
| 114 |
| PM1960 #
| 114 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| rough |
| Slab Edges
| 1 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The fragment was part of a slab edge. A row of small rooms to the left faces a large, probably open, space of which only two sides are visible.
Identification The rooms probably represent tabernae of the most common type found on the Marble Plan. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off at night. The owners perhaps resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop. The function of the large, open space to the right is uncertain but perhaps represents a courtyard.
Significance This piece is a typical example of unidentified fragments of the Plan. No monumental buildings are represented, and the fragment instead provides a view of the lesser known commercial structures. The size of the shops in front of the straight line might make it possible to find a match among the as yet unidentified pieces of the Plan. |
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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. It was not among the fragments that were reproduced in the Renaissance drawings that are now kept in the Vatican, but Giovanni Pietro Bellori included it in his 1673 publication. In 1742, the fragment was moved to the Capitoline Museums and exhibited with some of the other known fragments in wooden frames along the main staircase. Since then, it has been stored with the other FUR fragments in various places: the storerooms of the Capitoline Museums (1903-1924), the Antiquarium Comunale (1924-1939), the Capitoline Museums again (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 fragment's history corresponds to Iter E' as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg |
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| KEYWORDS
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| tabernae, open space, shops |
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