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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 150
    AG1980 # 150
    PM1960 # 150
    Slab # VI-8
    Adjoins 28a
     CONDITION
    Located true
    Incised true
    Surviving true
    Subfragments 1
    Plaster Parts 0
    Back Surface rough
    Slab Edges 1
    Clamp Holes 0
    Tassello no
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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    PM 1960 Plates: 38
    AG 1980 Plates: 39
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Riverfront warehouse (horreum) in Trastevere (Transtiberim)
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description A row of 5 columns is visible, parallel to the front of two rooms. A sixth column in the corner of the fragment is out of alignment with the others. Distinct marble veining in this fragment runs at a near-perpendicular angle to the slab edge on the right side.

    Identification D. Koller positioned this fragment immediately adjacent to fr. 28a (Koller-Levoy 2005), continuing the rows of columns and door openings across the slab edge boundary between the two fragments. The thickness, rough back surface, and marble veining direction are consistent with other fragments located in slab VI-8. In this position, fr. 150 depicts a further portion of the interior of the large riverfront warehouse visible on fr. 28a between the Tiber River and the Via Campana-Portuensis.

    Significance Due to the sharp change in angle of the leftmost column shown on the fragment, along with the expected course of the Via Campana-Portuensis directly below the fragment position, it is likely that fr. 150 demarcates the northmost corner of this large warehouse interior.

    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 David Koller and Tina Najbjerg

    KEYWORDS
    horrea, warehouse, riverfront, collonade, Transtiberim

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