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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 375
    AG1980 # 375
    PM1960 # 375 b
    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
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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Photograph (84 KB)
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    PM 1960 Plates: 47 62
    AG 1980 Plates: 48
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Unidentified rectilinear architecture
    INSCRIPTION
    None

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    ANALYSIS
    Description From left, two parallel lines traverse the fragment, making first a sharp left, then a sharp right turn. Bottom right, parallel and perpendicular lines join these lines.

    Identification In PM 1960, this piece was labeled 375b and erroneously joined and photographed with frs. 375a and 375c (see pl. 47). The error was discovered during the printing of the publication and corrected. The double lines may represent a passageway, separating various rectilinear architecture.

    Significance 3D digital matching may allow us to join this fragment to already identified and located areas on the Plan and help identify the architecture.

    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 fragment’s history corresponds to Iter E’ as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)

    Text by Tina Najbjerg

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