ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 133 |
| AG1980 #
| 133 |
| PM1960 #
| 133 |
| 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 horizontal arcade makes a right angle with a vertical wall at the bottom of the fragment. The arcade faces a large, open space. A faint guide line crosses the fragment at an oblique angle to the arcade.
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, piazzas, or areas close to 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.
Significance 3D digital matching may help attach this fragment to larger, developed areas of the Plan and thus help identify the nature of this large, open space.
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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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| open space, arcade |
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