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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 648
    AG1980 # 648
    PM1960 # 648
    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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     BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    PM 1960 Plates: 57
    AG 1980 Plates: 58
     
    IDENTIFICATION
    Partial inscription
    INSCRIPTION Epigraphic conventions used
  • Transcription
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    [---]P*[---]
  • Renaissance Transcription
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    None
  • Reconstruction
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    [---]I P*[---](PM 1960)

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    ANALYSIS
    Description The small fragment depicts parts of two or three letters. The central letter has been identified as a P and the letter to the left of it as an I (PM 1960, p. 154). In the color photograph, however, the letter to the left of the P looks more like another P or perhaps a B (if it IS a letter and not some other feature), while the tiny section of a crossbar of a letter to the right looks like a T more than an I.

    Identification Not enough remains of this fragment to identify the inscription.

    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. 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 fragment’s history corresponds to Iter E’ as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)

    Text by Tina Najbjerg

    KEYWORDS
    inscription, letter

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