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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 321abc
    AG1980 # 321a-c
    PM1960 # 321 a-c
    Slab # unknown
    Adjoins none
     CONDITION
    Located false
    Incised true
    Surviving true
    Subfragments 3
    Plaster Parts 0
    Back Surface smooth
    Slab Edges 0
    Clamp Holes 0
    Tassello no
     TECHNICAL INFO
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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Photograph (Mosaic) (119 KB)
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    PM 1960 Plates: 45
    AG 1980 Plates: 46
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Passageways between large precincts?
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description A horizontal and a vertical passageway separate three precincts. The two spaces at top and at bottom left are open and devoid of architecture. The enclosed area to the right seems to contain a group of rooms.

    Identification The function of these large, open precincts is uncertain. This type of enclosures is perhaps more likely to have been located outside the immediate center of Rome, as seen for example in slab VI-9.

    Significance 3D digital matching may allow us to join these fragments to already identified and located areas on the Plan and thus discover the nature of these precincts.

    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 family’s 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

    KEYWORDS
    precincts, enclosures

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