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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 128
    AG1980 # 128
    PM1960 # 128
    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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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    PM 1960 Plates: 37
    AG 1980 Plates: 38
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Shops (tabernae) and courtyards
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description A vertical street or alley separates two buildings that face the top of the fragment. Visible on the building to the right is a large space fronted by two tabernae. N.B. The back wall of the two shops is incorrectly rendered as a broken line in AG 1980, pl. 38. The edifice to the left also consists of a large space, faced with at least two tabernae. At the bottom, more rooms open onto this courtyard. N.B. The front wall of these additional back rooms is rendered incorrectly as a straight, unbroken line in AG 1980, pl. 38. The vertical alley makes a turn and merges with a large, open space behind the courtyard to the right.

    Identification The large rooms or courtyards behind the tabernae perhaps represent working areas for the shop owners.

    Significance The fragment is a typical example of the commercial structures that made up a large percentage of Rome's non-monumental fabric.

    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

    KEYWORDS
    tabernae, courtyard, alley

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