ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 328ab |
| AG1980 #
| 328a-b |
| PM1960 #
| 328 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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| ANALYSIS
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| Description A vertical passageway traverses the fragment group in the center, right across the break between the two pieces. A horizontal street joins it from the left. Top left, a row of tabernae backs onto the horizontal street and faces upwards. Below, a wall or edge of a sidewalk separates a group of rooms from the horizontal street. On the right, another row of tabernae faces the vertical street. Behind their back wall lies an assortment of rectilinear rooms and enclosures.
Identification Rows of tabernae are ubiquitous on the Plan, and the type depicted here are of the most common type seen on the FUR. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off a night. The owners perhaps resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop, although the smallest tabernae were probably strictly for commercial 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. They were not among the fragments that were reproduced in the Renaissance drawings that are now kept in the Vatican, but Giovanni Pietro Bellori included them in his 1673 publication. In 1742, the fragments were moved to the Capitoline Museums and exhibited with some of the other known fragments in wooden frames along the main staircase. Since then, they have 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. (The history of these fragments corresponds to Iter E as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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| KEYWORDS
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| tabernae |
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