ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 620 |
| AG1980 #
| 620 |
| PM1960 #
| 620 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| smooth |
| Slab Edges
| 1 |
| Clamp Holes
| 1 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The fragment formed a large part of a slab edge; a clamp hole is visible. Most of the surface of the fragment is blank; only at the bottom is a small section of a row of tabernae visible.
Identification There were many blank areas on the Marble Plan. These included the spaces occupied by the Tiber River, by gardens, arenas, temple precincts, courtyards, or from the edges of the Map --in short, any space devoid of architecture or human construction. This fragment could have belonged to any of those areas, with the row of shops defining a structure that imposes upon the open space. The type of tabernae depicted here are of the most common type seen on the FUR. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off at night. The owners may have resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop, although these particular shops are so small that they may have been of commercial use only.
Significance 3D digital matching may help attach this fragment to already located and identified areas of the Plan.
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| The fragment was discovered in 1867 during excavations in the aula of the Forum Pacis (PM 1960, p. 153), and it was exhibited with other FUR fragments along the main staircase of the Capitoline Museums until 1883. In 1903, the museum curators included the piece in a reconstruction of the FUR mounted on a wall behind the Palazzo dei Conservatori (1903-1924). Since then, the fragment has been stored with the other known FUR fragments in various places: the storerooms of 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 F as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg |
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| KEYWORDS
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| blank space, tabernae |
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