ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 124b |
| AG1980 #
| 124b |
| PM1960 #
| 152 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| 124a |
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 Two parallel lines extend towards and slightly past each other from opposite ends of the fragment. A perpendicular line stretches outward from each of the parallel lines.
Identification The extreme angle at which this fragment is broken, the rough back, the thickness, the veining direction, the color of the marble, and the type of incisions, enabled Rodríguez-Almeida to match the tiny piece to fr. 124a. The regularity of the rooms depicted in the two joining fragments may indicate that they belonged in one of the areas that consisted of row after row of tabernae and open enclosures like those seen in fr. 111ab.
Significance Digital 3D matching may allow us to attach this fragment to larger, identified areas of the Marble 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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