ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 388a |
| AG1980 #
| 388a |
| PM1960 #
| 388 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| 388b |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| smooth |
| Slab Edges
| 1 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The small fragment was part of a slab edge. It depicts a short stretch of a street. On the bottom left, the street is flanked by what seems to be small rooms, and above them, two or three short dashes which may represent columns or pillars between a wall.
Identification During the printing of PM 1960, the authors recognized the join between this fragment and fr. 388b (PM 1960, p. 138 plus figure). The join shows that the street in this fragment continues and that it is indeed lined on the left by a row of small rooms which are probably tabernae. The function of the short, perpendicular dashes at top left is uncertain. Do they represent columns? or door posts? On the Plan, columns are usually rendered with a dot, the piers of an arcade with dashes. These dashes are unusually short and may therefore represent something unprecedented on the Plan, like door posts or pillars.
Significance The join with fr. 388b helps to identify the architecture depicted in this fragment. 3D digital matching may allow us to join this fragment to already identified and located areas on the Plan.
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| The provenance of this piece is unknown (PM 1960, p. 138). It has, presumably, been in storage with the other known FUR fragments in various places since its publication: In the storerooms of 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.
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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| KEYWORDS
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| street, column, arcade |
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