ID AND LOCATION
| Stanford #
| 688 |
| AG1980 #
| 688 |
| PM1960 #
| 688 |
| Slab #
| unknown |
| Adjoins
| none |
CONDITION
| Located
| false |
| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
| false |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| no | |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
- AG 1980, pl. 60
- LTUR V: Villa Publica (S. Agache), pp. 202-205
- PM 1960, p. 158, pls. 13, 59
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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: Partial inscription [---]PUBLI[---]
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| INSCRIPTION
Epigraphic conventions used |
| Transcription |
| None; the fragment itself is missing
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| Renaissance Transcription |
| [---]PUBLI[---]
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| Reconstruction |
| [VILLA]PUBLI[CA] (Hülsen, Lundström, Gatti; see reconstructions - now rejected- in PM 1960, p. 99) |
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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 that it only depicted a partial inscription, [---]PUBLI[---](see photo detail above or PM 1960, pl. 13, no. 14).
Identification Early scholars such as Ch. Hülsen, V. Lundström, and G. Gatti reconstructed the inscription in this missing fragment as [VILLA] PUBLI[CA] and hypothetically incorporated it into their reconstructions of the Campus Martius (see all three plans in PM 1960, p. 99). With the generally accepted reconstruction of this area by the authors of PM 1960, this interpretation was rejected and the fragment classified as unidentified (PM 1960, p. 158), a position it retains to this day.
Significance The Renaissance drawing is our only knowledge of this fragment which seems to have labeled some public area or monument on the Plan. |
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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 fragments history corresponds to Iter D as summarized in PM 1960, p. 56.)
Text by Tina Najbjerg
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| KEYWORDS
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| villa publica |
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