ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 366 |
| AG1980 #
| 366 |
| PM1960 #
| 366 |
| 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 To the right, the upper left corner of a peripteral podium temple is visible. The edges of the podium are not shown. The columns that surrounded the cella are rendered with sloppily recessed squares. The cella wall is drawn with a recessed double line, as is common on the Plan. Unusual, however, is the the crenellated outer wall of the cella; it may represent pilasters along the outer face of the cella (PM 1960, p. 137). The vertical line to the left of the temple probably denotes the wall of the temple precinct. Left of it are traces of another building.
Identification Except for the crenellated outline of the cella wall, the rendering of this temple is standard on the Plan. It is a large temple and must belong to the monumental center of Rome.
Significance Given the unusual outline of the cella wall, the front part of the temple on the FUR would surely have been discovered by now, had it existed. It either doesn't exist anymore, or it is still to be discovered in the subsoil 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. The fragment was later used as building material in the 17th c. construction of the Farnese familys Giardino Segreto (Secret Garden) near the Via Giulia, and was rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden were demolished. Since then, it has 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. (This fragments history corresponds to Iter E" as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.) N.B. PM 1960 does not reveal the whereabouts of the fragment between 1903 and 1924.
Text by Tina Najbjerg |
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| KEYWORDS
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| temple, cella, colonnade, precinct |
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