ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 116 |
| AG1980 #
| 116 |
| PM1960 #
| 116 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
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 A large rectangle encloses a small quadrant.
Identification The structure represented in this fragment is unique on the Plan. Similar, but slightly different features are depicted in three other FUR fragments: A possible central fountain inside the Porticus Liviae in fr. 10q; the fountain house of the Lacus Iuturnae in fr. 18a; and a small, temple-like structure inside an enclosure in fr. 277ab. The structure in this fragment may represent an altar placed on a large platform or within a sacred precinct. It might also depict a fountain.
Not enough remains of the space around the feature to determine whether it represented a small, neighborhood altar or fountain, or the central feature in one of Rome's large, public fora.
Significance 3D digital matching may help attach this small fragment to identified areas 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. The fragment was later used as building material in the 17th-c. construction of the Farnese family's 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 fragment's 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.
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| KEYWORDS
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| altar?, fountain?, basin?, platform?, precinct |
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