ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 367 |
| AG1980 #
| 367 |
| PM1960 #
| 367 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| 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 fragment was part of a slab edge. Part of a clamp hole is visible. On the right, the corner of colonnaded courtyard or peristyle is visible. It is separated from two building on the left by a vertical wall. In the building at top left lies a rectangle. In the building at bottom left, three columns of a horizontal colonnade are visible.
Identification Colonnaded courtyards are common on the Plan. They formed parts of large, public spaces, of small and large bath complexes, of private residences, of meeting halls for private guilds, and they might serve as common work and recreation spaces in small neighborhoods. The colonnades depicted here seem to have been of limited size and they were probably part of a smaller neighborhood complex as opposed to a large, public monument.
Significance This fragment represents a section of one of Rome's non-monumental, and therefore little-known residential and/or commercial neighborhoods. |
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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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| colonnade |
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