ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 638 |
| AG1980 #
| 638 |
| PM1960 #
| 638 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| true |
| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| not preserved |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no |
TECHNICAL INFO
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The tiny fragment shows two short dashes, crossed. Part of what may be another cross is visible to the far right. A straight, horizontal line, parallel to the horizontal bars of the crosses is barely visible along the bottom edge of the fragment.
Identification The few other instances on the Plan where individual crosses like the ones depicted here are found, suggest that the crosses denote the crossing of walls with openings (fr. 163abc and 273abcd) or in the case of the Circus Maximus (fr. 8bde), perhaps side supports of barrel vaults or arcades. This fragment is too small to allow an identification of these crosses.
Significance 3D digital matching may allow us to join this fragment to already identified and located areas on the Plan.
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| HISTORY OF FRAGMENT |
| The provenance of this fragment is unknown (PM 1960, p. 154). Presumably, it has been stored since its publication in PM 1960 with other known FUR fragments in 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.
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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| KEYWORDS
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| crosses, barrel vaults, arcades |
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