Description A possible clamp hole location is suggested by the unusual sloping erosion pattern on the back. Two tabernae opening up to a street running left-right on the bottom half of the fragment. Behind the taberna are two square rooms without a door indicated. The row of taberna with square rooms behind continues on fragments 134 and 156. Although omitted in this fragment, there would have been doors between the front and the back rooms.

Identification: commercial quarter on flat land Fragment 667 was connected to fragments 134 and 156 with boundary incision matching at Stanford University (Koller-Levoy 2005, fig. 5-7). The output from the matching algorithm assigned high matching scores to each pairwise combination of these 3 fragments; upon manual review, the configuration shown in fig. 6 was determined to be the most likely. E. Rodríguez-Almeida had already joined this fragment to fr. 134 based on the rough back of both (Rodríguez-Almeida 1992, pp. 62-63). The regularity of the streets and buildings on this fragment and on 667/134 indicates that the land is flat. The rooms aligning the street are probably tabernae. The most common type of tabernae on the Plan consists of a single room that opens directly onto a street. This type of room could function as a shop, as a dwelling, or, probably more commonly, as a combination of the two. In single-room shops, a wooden loft often served as the actual dwelling area (Reynolds 1996, pp. 158-9). This fragment may depict a type of taberna that had an additional room in the back. Such structures have been found in both Ostia and Pompeii. The back room was either used as the family residence or, if the front room had a loft, as a work- and/or storage space. Other examples of such tabernae can be seen in frs. 11a, 11c, and 11fgh (Reynolds 1996, fig. 3.13). Although omitted in this fragment, there would have been doors between the front and the back rooms.

Significance This fragment is typical of non-located fragments of the Marble Plan. It depicts a section of a commercial/residential quarter which is quite different from the monumental architecture in the center of Rome.

Text by Tina Najbjerg and Lidewijde de Jong