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     ID AND LOCATION
    Stanford # 657
    AG1980 # 657
    PM1960 # 657
    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
    Section of colonnaded courtyard
    INSCRIPTION
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    ANALYSIS
    Description The tiny fragment depicts three columns in the corner of a rectangular or square space. An opening is visible in the left wall.

    Identification This must depict the corner of a peristyle or colonnaded courtyard. Courtyards were desirable features in the crowded city, and the addition of a covered colonnade like in this fragment was especially luxurious. Courtyards could be shared by a group of neighbors and shopowners and used as work spaces or simply extra living space. They might function as meeting grounds for one of Rome's many guilds or priesthoods. On occasion, when attached to bath complexes, they served a more specific function as a palaestra for exercise.

    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. The fragment was later used as building material in the 17th c. construction of the Farnese family’s Giardino Segreto (“Secret Garden”) near the Via Giulia, and was rediscovered in 1888 or 1898 when the walls of the garden were demolished. Since then, it has 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. (This fragment’s history corresponds to Iter E" as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.) N.B. PM 1960 does not reveal the whereabouts of the fragment between 1903 and 1924.

    Text by Tina Najbjerg

    KEYWORDS
    colonnaded courtyard, peristyle

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