ID AND LOCATION
CONDITION
| Located
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| Incised
| true |
| Surviving
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| Subfragments
| 1 |
| Plaster Parts
| 0 |
| Back Surface
| rough |
| Slab Edges
| 0 |
| Clamp Holes
| 0 |
| Tassello
| yes |
TECHNICAL INFO
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Photograph (39 KB)
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PM 1960 Plates: 13 35
AG 1980 Plates: 36
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| IDENTIFICATION |
| Temple of Faustina (aedes Faustinae) on the
Palatine Hill (Palatium)
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| INSCRIPTION
Epigraphic conventions used |
| Transcription |
| [---]V*ST[---]
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| Renaissance Transcription |
| [---]NAE (Cod. Vat. Lat. 3439 -- Fo 22 r, reproduced at PM 1960, pl. 13, no. 25)
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| Reconstruction |
1. [---]VST[I]NAE (with fr. 70a: AG 1980)
2. augVSTaNAE or faVSTiNAE (with fr. 70 [70a]: PM 1960)
3. [DIVAE FA]VST[I]NAE / [AEDIS] or [DIVAE FA]VST[I]NAE / [TEMPLVM] (with fr. 70a: Cecamore 1999)
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| ANALYSIS
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| Description This fragment depicts only the letters "ST", with the right half of a "V" just visible along the left edge of the fragment. There are guide lines along the top and bottom of the inscription. N.B. The marble vein direction on PM 1960, pl. 35, is represented correctly for fragments 70a and 70b, but incorrectly for fragment 70c; this was fixed in AG 1980, pl. 36.
Identification: Aedes Faustinae Together with 70a, 70b and 103, this fragment has recently been identified as part of the Temple of the Deified Faustina on the Palatine, rededicated in 221 CE to Elagabalus (Cecamore 1999; on the Temple of Elagabalus, see LTUR III, pp. 10-11). The identification is supported by the inscription on 70a and 70c, comparison with the second century CE structures excavated in the Vigna Barberini on the Palatine, close study of the original location on the wall of the dowel hole on the back of 70a and 70c, and the similarity between these fragments and known parts of slab VII-11 of the Plan, to which this location corresponds. The temple stood within a large porticus that had a double colonnade on three sides (Cecamore 1999, p. 320, fig. 5). This fragment depicts part of the colonnade at the S corner of the complex.
Significance Together with frs. 70a, b, and 103, this fragment was key to identifying the excavated remains on the Palatine as belonging to the Temple of Faustina.
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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. 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 and Jennifer Trimble |
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| KEYWORDS
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| temple, colonnade, Palatine |
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