ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 315ab |
| AG1980 #
| 315a-b |
| PM1960 #
| 315; 303 |
| 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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| ANALYSIS
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| Description A row of tabernae, facing left, traverses both fragments.
Identification In 1970, E. Rodríguez-Almeida was able to join these two fragments (Rodríguez-Almeida 1970-71). They depict a row of elongated tabernae of a type that is ubiquitous on the Plan. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off at night. In some shops, the owners may have resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop. In long tabernae like these, the entire back section may have been screened off for residential use.
Significance This fragment is typical of non-identified 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 residential and commercial buildings.
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| Like the majority of FUR fragments, these pieces were discovered in 1562 in a garden behind the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. From here, they were transferred to the Palazzo Farnese and stored there. The fragments were later used as building material in the 17th c. construction of the Farnese familys Giardino Segreto (Secret Garden) near the Via Giulia, and were rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden were demolished. Since then, they have 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. (The history of these fragments corresponds to Iter E" as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.) N.B. PM 1960 does not reveal the whereabouts of the fragments between 1903 and 1924.
Text by Tina Najbjerg |
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| KEYWORDS
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| tabernae |
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