Description Small corner fragment with two original sides. Two parallel streets in left and right part of fragment, running top left to bottom right. In the middle a building is visible with several partition walls and openings onto the right street. One internal staircase is indicated .The start of a new block is visible in the top right corner.

Identification: possible connection with 37Afghil Fragment 37Afghil is possibly matched with 37Afghil by the boundary incision matching process done at Stanford (Koller-Levoy 2005, 7-8, fig. 19). Four sets of incised features aligned well across the horizontal slab boundary between the two candidates; three of them lie along the sides of the parallel streets, and the fourth appears as a half-eroded incision on the lower-left corner of fr. 576, perpendicular to the street features and aligning with the incision in the upper-left of fr. 37Ai. Though this proposed match is far from certain, other similarities between the two fragments deserve its consideration. The style of the incisions on fr. 576 is very much like that of fr. 37A, and the depiction of the architecture, such as the stairways, is similar. Rodríguez-Almeida previously placed the 37A fragment group in Trastevere, along the right edge of a horizontally oriented slab (Rodríguez-Almeida 1981, pp. 140-143).Because fr. 576 is a slab corner, its range of possible positions on the wall is highly constrained, and the proposed match with 37A does not appear to be compatible with the expected slab boundary locations. If positioned directly above fr. 37Afghil in Rodríguez-Almeida’s wall placement, fr. 576 would not be coincident with a slab corner; in fact, the closest such position would require a shift of fr. 37A to the left by almost 35 cm on the wall. The resolution of this dilemma requires further study, and is one reason to regard this proposed match with skepticism.

Significance With its mixed residential and commercial architecture, the fragment represents one of the non-monumental, and therefore lesser known sections of the ancient city.