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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 624
    AG1980 # 624
    PM1960 # 624
    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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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    PM 1960 Plates: 57
    AG 1980 Plates: 58
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Row of rooms (tabernae?) in open area
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description The fragment was part of a slab edge. The surface is extremely corroded. A horizontal row of small rooms is barely visible in the top left corner. They face an open space.

    Identification The rooms here are probably tabernae. Rows of tabernae are ubiquitous on the Plan, and the type depicted here are of the most common type seen on the FUR. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening in front that could be screened off at night. The owners might have resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop, although the small size of these particular tabernae may indicate they were strictly for commercial use.

    Significance 3D digital matching may allow us to join this fragment to already identified and located areas on the Plan.

    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 family’s 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 fragment’s 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

    KEYWORDS
    tabernae, open space

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