ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 567 |
| AG1980 #
| 567 |
| PM1960 #
| 567 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
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 fragment was part of a slab edge. It depicts an array of rectilinear enclosures and rooms. A street runs from the top of the fragment towards the bottom left; before it reaches the edge of the fragment, it makes a left turn and disappears beyond the bottom right corner. Top left, it is flanked by a large enclosure that has one opening towards the street. Bottom left, three rooms open onto the street. The largest of these rooms has two openings towards the street. Center right, a large enclosure with a staircase along the left wall is visible. A small square with a dot in the two right corners is attached to the bottom corner of this enclosure. Two openings in this enclosure face the street; one is placed right next to the small square and opens onto a narrow alley. More construction with multiple storeys is visible in the lower right corner of the fragment.
Identification The architecture in this fragment does not look like typical residential units, nor does it seem to fall easily within the catagory of commercial structures. Is the large enclosure a stable? with the small square by its corner perhaps being a watering basin for the animals? The multi-storeyed construction in the bottom right corner may contain small apartments. Is this building perhaps a hotel, with "parking" facilities for animals?
Significance This fragment is typical of non-identified fragments of the Plan. No monumental buildings are represented, and the fragment instead provides a view of the lesser known structures that made up the urban fabric of Rome: the residential and commercial buildings.
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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. 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 |
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| KEYWORDS
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| enclosure, stable, hotel, street, staircase |
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