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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 643ab
    AG1980 # 643a-b
    PM1960 # 643 a b
    Slab # unknown
    Adjoins none
     CONDITION
    Located false
    Incised true
    Surviving true
    Subfragments 2
    Plaster Parts 0
    Back Surface not preserved
    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
    Two parallel lines flanking an open space
    INSCRIPTION
    None

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    ANALYSIS
    Description The fragment was part of a slab edge. The surface is much corroded. The back is not preserved, but it may have been rough (PM 1960, p. 154). The front surface is primarily blank, but at right, two vertical, parallel lines are 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 two straight lines defining a structure that imposes upon the open space.

    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, these pieces were discovered in 1562 in a garden behind the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. From here, they were transferred to the Palazzo Farnese and stored there. The fragments were later used as building material in the 17th c. construction of the Farnese family’s Giardino Segreto (“Secret Garden”) near the Via Giulia, and were rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden were demolished. Since then, they have 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. (The history of these fragments corresponds to Iter E" as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.) N.B. PM 1960 does not reveal the whereabouts of the fragments between 1903 and 1924.

    Text by Tina Najbjerg

    KEYWORDS
    open space, parallel double lines

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