ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 629 |
| AG1980 #
| 629 |
| PM1960 #
| 629 |
| Slab #
| V-13 |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| smooth |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description A vertical street traverses the fragment on the left. It is intersected at top by a horizontal street and further below, on the right, it is joined by another street. Bottom left, the vertical street is flanked by a row of rooms that open onto it; at least one contains a staircase. On the bottom right it is flanked by a large building which consists of a series of interconnected rooms in an unusual layout. No access from the outside is visible. The building above it contains five separate rooms. Two are accessible from the street. One contains a staircase. A small semicircular feature is situated at the top left corner of this building.
Identification The restricted access to the building at bottom right suggests it is of "private" use. It does not have the layout of a regular single-family dwelling, a domus, but it may be an apartment complex, a hotel, or some kind of workshop. The structure above it also looks more like an apartment unit, with access to upper apartments, than a commercial building. The semi-circular feature at its corner may be a basin or a fountain. The rooms that flank the left side of the vertical street seem to be spaced regularly, and they may represent tabernae.
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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| tabernae, apartments, stairs, basin, fountain |
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