ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 561 |
| AG1980 #
| 561 |
| PM1960 #
| 561 |
| Slab #
| VII-10 |
| 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
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description A vertical line divides the fragment in two. The left side is blank, the right side consists of three straight, parallel lines that move in a diagonal angle from the vertical line towards the bottom right. The bottom-most diagonal line has a single opening and is connected to the line above it through a short, perpendicular line.
Identification E. Rodríguez-Almeida suggests that the heat damage and surface erosion of this fragment indicate it belonged to slab VII-10 which has similar characteristics (Rodríguez-Almeida 1992, pp. 77-80). Not enough remains of the architecture to warrant an identification, but if Rodríguez-Almeida is right, the fragment belonged to a central area of Rome, near the forum Pacis.
Significance 3D digital matching may bring Rodríguez-Almeida's brilliant research one step further and allow us to join this fragment to already identified and located areas 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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