The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: The silver treasure

The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: The silver treasure
ISBN-10
0199242364
ISBN-13
9780199242368
Series
The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
Category
Art / History / General
Pages
89
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Author
Roger Ling

Description

The Casa del Menando hoard was found by Professor Amedeo Maiuri in 1930, in the course of the excavation of the Insula of the Menander. There has been no study of it as a whole since Maiuri's publication of 1933. The silver, one of the three largest groups of Roman plate of the first century AD, is the only one which has been found and recorded under modern conditions, and demonstrates what plate was in use in Pompeii in the period of the disasters of AD 62 and 72.; The treasure includes two hoards, hidden in the same chest, one consisting of 118 pieces of silver plate, the other of coins and.

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