ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 371 |
| AG1980 #
| 371 |
| PM1960 #
| 371 |
| 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
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ANALYSIS
|
| Description A vertical wall with one opening traverses the fragment on the left. It is lined on the right by short, T-shaped piers. On the right are two more vertical lines, parallel to the first. The middle line also has a small opening and it seems to be connected to the rightmost wall through a short, perpendicular wall at the top. Another perpendicular wall seems to emerge on the right side of the rightmost vertical wall.
Identification The small, regularly spaced rooms with wide openings on the left in this fragment are similar to the stalls that line the S side of the Porticus of Pompey in fr. 37e. The stalls in this fragment, however, are a little too wide to have been part of this particular building. They may, however, have lined the sides of another large public porticus or entertainment monument where small stalls that could make fast food, water, and souvenirs available to a large crowd were highly needed.
Significance The architecture depicted in this fragment is somewhat distinct; if a match exists among the known FUR fragments it would probably have been found by now. |
|
| 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. It was not among the fragments that were reproduced in the Renaissance drawings that are now kept in the Vatican, but Giovanni Pietro Bellori included it in his 1673 publication. In 1742, the fragment was moved to the Capitoline Museums and exhibited with some of the other known fragments in wooden frames along the main staircase. Since then, it has 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. (This fragments history corresponds to Iter E as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg |
|
| KEYWORDS
|
| stalls |
|
Prev
