ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 32gh |
| AG1980 #
| 32g-h |
| PM1960 #
| 614 ab |
| Slab #
| V-13 |
| Adjoins
| 32i |
CONDITION
| Located
| true |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 2 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| smooth |
| Slab Edges
| 1 |
| Clamp Holes
| 1 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The joining fragments were part of a slab edge. A clamp hole is visible on the side, at the bottom of fr. h. They depict a row of back-to-back tabernae, fronted on the right by an arcade or covered colonnade. A narrow passageway cuts through the row at top.
Identification: Riverfront structures Having identified the shops in this fragment and the joining fr. 32i as riverfront structures, E. Rodríguez-Almeida used this information together with the position of the clamp hole and the thickness and smooth back of the fragments, which is similar to the already securely positioned fragment group 32, to locate them in the bottom left of slab V-13 (Rodríguez-Almeida 1977, pp. 248-250, fig. 11; AG 1980, pp. 116-118). This position was later confirmed by the discovery of the via Anicia plan which depicts the same area (among the many publications on the via Anicia plan and its relationship to frs. 32gh and 32i, see Rodríguez-Almeida 1988 and Tucci 1996b, 1994, and 1993). The elongated shops in these fragments correspond to buildings excavated in this area (see AG 1980, fig. 31) and to similar structures visible in the exact same area on the Catasto Gregoriano, and the colonnaded passageway in front more or less follows the course of the via d. Fiumara (see Rodríguez-Almeida 1988, fig. 4).
Significance The secure position of this fragment in the Severan Marble Plan helped locate the buildings depicted on the via Anicia plan. |
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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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| river, Tiber, riverfront structures, tabernae, colonnade, arcade |
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