ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 122 |
| AG1980 #
| 122 |
| PM1960 #
| 122 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| rough |
| Slab Edges
| 1 |
| Clamp Holes
| 1 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The right side of this large fragment was part of a slab edge. A clamp hole is visible in the upper right side. A long straight line runs at a slightly oblique angle to the right edge. A short, perpendicular line extends from this line to the right edge in the bottom right corner. Another vertical straight line, maybe just a scratch but possibly a guide line, traverses the fragment at an almost parallel angle to the other long line.
Identification There were many blank areas on the Marble Plan. These included the spaces occupied by the Tiber River, by gardens, arenas, temple precincts, courtyards, or from the edges of the Map -- in short, any space devoid of architecture or human construction. This fragment could have belonged to any of those areas, with the straight line defining a feature that imposes upon the open space.
Significance 3D digital matching may help attach this fragment to already located and 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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| open space, guideline |
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