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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 625
    AG1980 # 625
    PM1960 # 625
    Slab # V-13
    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
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    PM 1960 Plates: 57
    AG 1980 Plates: 58
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Two parallel lines
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description The fragment was part of a slab edge; a clamp hole is visible. N.B. The position of the clamp hole in PM 1960, pl. 57, is incorrect and was corrected with a drawing in the text on p. 153. Two straight, parallel lines cross the fragment.

    Identification Not enough remains to identify the nature of these lines and what they represent. E. Rodríguez-Almeida, however, has proposed that it belongs in slab V-13 which mainly depicts the Tiber. He based this on the thickness of the marble, veining direction, smooth back, and sawing irregularities on the back, characteristics of other fragments located in slab V-13 (AG 1980, pp. 115-118, fig. 30).

    Significance Considering the small size, limited engraving, and poor condition of this fragment, it is an impressive feat by Rodríguez-Almeida to have located it in slab V-13.

    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

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