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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 269ab
    AG1980 # 269a-b
    PM1960 # 269 a b
    Slab # unknown
    Adjoins none
     CONDITION
    Located false
    Incised true
    Surviving true
    Subfragments 2
    Plaster Parts 0
    Back Surface smooth
    Slab Edges 0
    Clamp Holes 0
    Tassello no
     TECHNICAL INFO
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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    PM 1960 Plates: 43
    AG 1980 Plates: 44
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Shops (tabernae)?
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description The left side of the fragment is occupied by a vertical row of single rooms that faces right. At the bottom, the side wall of the last room seems to function as the back wall of a horizontal row of rooms that faces towards the bottom of the fragment. The vertical row of rooms faces another vertical row of rooms across a narrow street or alley.

    Identification The rooms probably represent tabernae, ubiquitous on the Map. Their regular, rectilinear layout is reminiscent of the warehouse architecture by the Tiber, seen for example in fr. 25a. The fragment may belong to one of these commercial areas by the Tiber.

    Significance This piece is a typical example of unidentified fragments of the Plan. No monumental buildings are represented, and the fragment instead provides a view of the lesser known structures that made up the urban fabric of Rome: the commercial buildings.

    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

    KEYWORDS
    tabernae

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