Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
  • Home
  • Project
  • Map
  • Database
  • Slab Map
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • People
  • Links
    • Page 426 of 1273
    Prev Next
     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 248
    AG1980 # 248
    PM1960 # 248
    Slab # unknown
    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
    Scanner model15
    Search by:
    where value is:
    NOT
    AND OR
    Search by:
    where value is:
    NOT
     BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Photograph (14 KB)
    Note about photographs
    PM 1960 Plates: 43
    AG 1980 Plates: 44
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Arcade in front of a row of shops (tabernae)
    INSCRIPTION
    None

    3D Model Full model
    Download the viewer | Note about 3D models
    ANALYSIS
    Description A row of rooms, probably tabernae, are fronted by an arcade.

    Identification The luxury of having a covered sidewalk or portico in front of a row of shops was apparently not restricted to such grandiose areas as the slopes of the Palatine, facing the Circus Maximus (see fr. 8bde). Frs. 33abc, 34a, 34b and 34c depict a large, predominantly commercial area by the Tiber which abounds with rows of tabernae and arcades. This fragment might belong to either such areas. These covered arcades or porticoes signify that there was a second storey or a mezzanine level above the shops, which would have provided the shop owners with additional living room (Reynolds 1996, p. 158).

    Significance This fragment is a typical example of the type of commercial structures that made up a large part of the non-monumental fabric of Rome.
    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 a 17th c. Farnese construction, the “Secret Garden,” and it was rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden near the Via Giulia 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
    arcade, covered sidewalk, tabernae, portico, shops

    Stanford Graphics | Stanford Classics | Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma

    Copyright © The Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project