ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 264 |
| AG1980 #
| 264 |
| PM1960 #
| 264 |
| 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
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description A vertical street divides the depicted architecture in the center. To the right, a wide staircase or ramp is flanked by vertical rows of rooms that face the street and whose facade lines up with the bottom of the stairs. On the left, other rooms, probably tabernae face the street. A passageway, immediately across from the staircase, divides this row.
Identification The architecture depicted here, a wide staircase or ramp between rows of tabernae is exactly similar to what is shown in fr. 11fgh, which depicts a staircase leading from a major thoroughfare to buildings further up the slope of the Viminal hill. This indicates that this fragment also depicted a hilly section of the city, perhaps even an area close to the Viminal.
Significance The nature of the architecture in this fragment is predominantly commercial, thus visually and socially far removed from the monumental structures that embellished the center of Rome.
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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 familys 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 fragments 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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| staircase, tabernae |
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