ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 119 |
| AG1980 #
| 119 |
| PM1960 #
| 119 |
| 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 street separates a row of large rooms, top, from another building, bottom. Only a corridor, three or four small stalls, and a couple of rooms are visible in the building at the bottom of the fragment. N.B. One wall of the corridor, close to the edge of the fragment, is not visible in the photograph in PM 1960, pl. 37, or in AG 1980, pl. 38. It shows up clearly in Stanford's digital photo, however.
Identification The rooms in a row at top are probably tabernae. The openness and lack of privacy of the rooms in the building at the bottom may indicate they were commercial in nature rather than residential. Some shopowners, however, did not have the luxury of a separate dwelling, and many probably lived with their families in the back of their shops, which may also have been the case here.
Significance The buildings visible in this fragment are probably typical of the type of architecture that formed a large part of the non-monumental fabric of Rome: the mixed commercial and residential buildings. |
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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 |
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