ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 316 |
| AG1980 #
| 316 |
| PM1960 #
| 316 |
| 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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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The fragment was part of a slab edge. Top left, the corner of a building is visible. In its short side on the right, a narrow opening is situated close to the corner. This opening is flanked at top by a double line - perhaps a step? Inside the building, a horizontal row of columns reaches all the way to the presumed steps in front. Below, the corner of another building is barely visible. It seems to contain a staircase (PM 1960, p. 133).
Identification The formality of the layout of the building at top left may indicate that it represents the courtyard surrounding a small sanctuary or shrine. While the frontal steps would have given access to the open courtyard, the narrow opening on the right would have led to the covered porticoes that perhaps surrounded a central shrine.
Significance The fragment may represent one of the small, local shrines that must have peppered the residential and commercial neighborhoods 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. It was not among the fragments that were reproduced in the Renaissance drawings that are now kept in the Vatican, but Giovanni Pietro Bellori included it in his 1673 publication. In 1742, the fragment was moved to the Capitoline Museums and exhibited with some of the other known fragments in wooden frames along the main staircase. Since then, it has been stored with the other FUR fragments in various places: the storerooms of the Capitoline Museums (1903-1924), the Antiquarium Comunale (1924-1939), the Capitoline Museums again (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 corresp
onds to Iter E as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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| KEYWORDS
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| colonnade, steps, stairs |
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