ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 200a |
| AG1980 #
| 200a |
| PM1960 #
| 200 a |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| 200b |
CONDITION
| Located
| true |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| smooth |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description Three parallel lines traverse the fragment at an oblique angle from bottom center to upper right. The distance between the two leftmost lines is slightly wider than that to the right. Two other parallel lines emerge at an oblique angle to the left from the first set of lines. In the corner created by these lines is a small, diamont-shaped room.
Identification: Construction along the Tiber It has long been known that this fragment joins with fr. 200b (PM 1960, pl. 41). Now E. Rodríguez-Almeida has suggested that the open space on the right in fr. 200b represents the Tiber, labeled by the inscription in that piece which he reconstructs as [TIBERI]S. The elongated structures seen on the left in that fragment and which continue in this piece, seem to be of a utilitarian nature; they are perhaps warehouses (horrea) while the enclosure on the right in fr. b might represent a loading dock, similar to the one visible in fr. 25a (Rodríguez-Almeida 1992, pp. 59-60). The restrictions placed on the joined fragments by the direction of the inscription in fr. 200b, the course of the Tiber itself, and the fact that 200b was part of a slab corner, enabled Rodríguez-Almeida to position these fragments in the upper right corner of slab VIII-9 (Rodríguez-Almeida 1992, fig. 7).
Identification: Area Martis An alternative identification is offered by L. Ferrea. She suggests that the [---]S in fr. 200b combines with the AREA M[---] in fr. 674b to read AREA M[ARTI]S, a label she proposes refers to the campus Martialis on the Caelian Hill, known to have served as a place for military exercises when the Campus Martius was flooded (Ferrea 2002, p. 65). The similar style and ductus of the letters in the two fragments, as well as a visible guide line in both, suggest they belong to a single inscription. Imprecise rendering of fr. 674ac by the Renaissance engravers probably accounts for the slight misalignment of the lines in fragments 200 and those in the missing fr. 674ac. Ferrea locates frs. 200a and b along the top edge of slab XI-6 and frs. 674b and ac in the upper right corner of slab X-5 (fig. 66). In her schema, they thus occupy the area just south of the Temple of Claudius on the Caelian Hill.
Although Ferrea's proposal is an attractive one, it poses certain problems. Her placement of frs. 200a and b in slab XI-6.....
Significance Both proposals place this fragment, along with fr. 200b, along the edge of the Marble Plan. It thus provides important information about the design of the edges of this great monument. |
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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 fragments history corresponds to Iter E as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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