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The Finding of the Esquiline Silver Treasure: an Unpublished Letter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Ronald T. Ridley
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The ‘Esquiline Treasure’ is one of the prize exhibits in the British Museum; two small objects from it are to be found in Paris and Naples. A contemporary account of its discovery in 1793 was published by the leading antiquarian of the day, Ennio Quirinio Visconti. He described the operation as a chance excavation near the monastery of the Minims on the Esquiline with a further footnote specifying that the site was a little beyond the Subura in the remains of some ancient rooms of good construction but filled later with ruins.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 76 , March 1996 , pp. 215 - 222
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1996

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