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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 256
    AG1980 # 256
    PM1960 # 256
    Slab # unknown
    Adjoins none
     CONDITION
    Located false
    Incised true
    Surviving true
    Subfragments 1
    Plaster Parts 0
    Back Surface smooth
    Slab Edges 1
    Clamp Holes 0
    Tassello no
     TECHNICAL INFO
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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Photograph (59 KB)
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    PM 1960 Plates: 43
    AG 1980 Plates: 44
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Part of unidentified inscription
    INSCRIPTION Epigraphic conventions used
  • Transcription
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    [---][.][---]
  • Renaissance Transcription
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    None
  • Reconstruction
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    H or II or IL

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    ANALYSIS
    Description The fragment was part of a slab edge. Almost parallel to the slab edge is a horizontal line. Below this line, sections of two or three letters are visible.

    Identification It has been suggested that the two vertical stems to the right either represent an H, or two letters such as II, or IL (AG 1980, p. 159). Hitherto unnoticed is the vague outline of a diagonal bar on the left, clearly visible in the digital color photo. This could be a V or an A, depending on which side is up.

    Significance The large letters suggest the inscription once labeled a major monument.

    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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