ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 243 |
| AG1980 #
| 243 |
| PM1960 #
| 243 |
| Slab #
| IV-6 |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| 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 Five wide stairs lead to an enclosed area or a platform of which two sides are visible.
Identification: Slab IV-6 E. Rodríguez-Almeida was able to assign this fragment and frs. 221a, 221b, 229a, 229b, and 246 to slab IV-6 based on their thickness, rough back, color, and the presence of a belt of micacious, green specks that traverses them all. The natural gradient of the slab also enabled him to calculate their position within the slab (Rodríguez-Almeida 1991-92, pp. 22-26, fig. 12).
Identification: Platform near Largo Cairoli Having joined this fragment with frs. 221a, 221b, 229a, and 229b, Rodríguez-Almeida identified the feature depicted in them as a platform of travertine blocks which R. Lanciani (Lanciani 1893-1901, pl. 21) had shown existed in the subsoil between the Largo Cairoli, the church of Santa Maria in Monticelli and the Palazzo Cenci (Rodríguez-Almeida 1991-92, pp. 25-26). The function of this structure is uncertain.
Significance Rodríguez-Almeida's ability to join this fragment to others with equally sparse engravings emphasizes the importance of considering the minute characteristics of the marble slabs when attempting to match FUR fragments. |
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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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| KEYWORDS
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| platform, steps |
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