ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 364 |
| AG1980 #
| 364 |
| PM1960 #
| 364 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| 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 The fragment depicts the bottom of a vertical row of shops tabernae, facing right towards a passageway or open space. A row of columns runs parallel to the back wall of the tabernae. A narrow passageway at the bottom separates the shops from the wall of another building. A guide line traverses the fragment at an oblique angle in the open space to the right.
Identification The type of tabernae seen here are ubiquitous on the Plan. 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 some of the smaller tabernae may have been strictly for commercial use. The colonnade on the left may have belonged to a courtyard.
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 |
| The provenance of this fragment is unknown (PM 1960, p. 137). Since its publication in PM 1960, it has presumably been in storage with the rest of the known FUR fragments in 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. Text by Tina Najbjerg |
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| KEYWORDS
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| tabernae, colonnade |
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