ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 649 |
| AG1980 #
| 649 |
| PM1960 #
| 649 |
| 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 small fragment depicts a row of rooms, at least four, of equal size. The two visible rooms on the left open toward the top of the fragment, while the end room has an opening in the side that turns away from the row.
Identification Rows of tabernae are ubiquitous on the Plan, and the type depicted here are of the most common type seen on the FUR. Each shop consisted of a single room with a wide opening towards the street that could be screened off at night. The owners may have resided with their families on a wooden platform in the back of the shop, although the small size of these particular tabernae may indicate they were strictly for commercial use.
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 |
| 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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| tabernae |
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