ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 685 |
| AG1980 #
| 685 |
| PM1960 #
| 685 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| false |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no | |
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Detail from Cod. Vat. Lat. 3439 - Fo 22r,
reproduced from PM 1960, pl. 13 | |
PM 1960 Plates: 13 59
AG 1980 Plates: 60
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| IDENTIFICATION |
Renaissance drawing: Two horizontal lines and the partial inscription
[---]ASTA[--]
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| INSCRIPTION
Epigraphic conventions used |
| Transcription |
| None; the fragment itself is lost
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| Renaissance Transcription |
| [---]ASTA[---]
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| Reconstruction |
| [VICUS H]ASTA[TI] (H. Jordan, see reference in PM 1960, p. 158) |
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description The small fragment is lost but Renaissance drawing Cod. Vat. Lat. 3439 - Fo 22r shows what it depicted (see photo detail above or PM 1960, pl. 13, no. 6). At top, two parallel lines traversed the fragment. Below, the incomplete inscription [---]ASTA[---] appeared.
Identification Not enough remains of the lines at top to identify them. H. Jordan's reconstruction of the partial inscription as [VICUS H]ASTA[TI] suggests he identified the lines as delineating a street (see reference in PM 1960, p. 158). However, streets on the Marble Plan do not seem to have been rendered with lines. Instead, they were outlined by the architecture that flanked their sides -- similar to the way in which the Tiber was delineated.
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| 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. Renaissance engravers reproduced the fragment in 16th-c. drawings that are now kept in the Vatican (for more information about the creation and accuracy of these drawings, see Cod. Vat. Lat. 3439), and Giovanni Pietro Bellori included it in his 1673-publication. The whereabouts of the piece after this date are unknown. (This fragmentÂ’s history corresponds to Iter D as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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