ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 368 |
| AG1980 #
| 368 |
| PM1960 #
| 368 |
| 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; a clamp hole is visible on the back. Four horizontal lines, parallel and almost equidistant, traverse the piece.
Identification The four lines are spaced too irregularly to have been part of a hedge or planter arrangement like those in fr. 11efg or in the Temple of Claudius in fragment group 5. They are, however, extremely similar to the way the cavea along the long sides of large entertainment monuments like the Circus Maximus is rendered (see for example fr. 8c). The slab edge of this fragment does not allow for it to have been part of the seating area of the Circus Maximus, although the width between lines, the marble thickness, veining direction, and smooth back all match the fragments of the Circus Maximus in slab VIII-5. It may have been part of another similar monument.
Significance 3D digital matching may allow us to join this fragment to already identified and located monuments on the Plan.
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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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