ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 313 |
| AG1980 #
| 313 |
| PM1960 #
| 313 |
| 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 On the left, a vertical line with a row of dots on the right traverses the fragment. On the right lies a parallel row of rooms, facing right, which is bordered on the right and at top by a wall. More rooms, but of smaller size, continue the row at top. To the right of the vertical wall lies an open space, in which the corner of some unidentifiable feature is placed on a diagonal.
Identification The vertical row of rooms probably represents tabernae. They are of the type most commonly depicted on the Marble Plan. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off at night. Whether the line they face depicts an actual wall or perhaps the edge of a sidewalk is uncertain. The vertical line on the left, however, almost certainly represents a step down or the inner edge of a colonnaded portico. Compare it, for example, with the inner edge of the colonnaded porticoes that surrounded the central courtyard of the porticus Philippi in fr. 31bb, the Saepta Iulia in fr. 35nozaa and 35lpqr, and the porticus Divorum in fr. 35cdefghi. The fine and careful execution of lines in this fragment may, in fact, indicate that it belongs with one of the great porticus in the monumental center of Rome.
Significance 3D digital matching in combination with human research of marble color, back condition, and ductus should be able to locate this fragment within the already identified areas of the Marble Plan.
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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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| colonnade, portico, tabernae, sidewalk, open space |
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