The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: The Silver Treasure - Couverture rigide

Painter, Kenneth S.

 
9780199242368: The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: The Silver Treasure
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199242364 ISBN 13 : 9780199242368
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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 jewellery. Maiuri thought that the hoards, and therefore the house, belonged to the top level of Roman society; but this study suggests that they belonged to a rich citizen of Pompeii, who may have been a local magistrate.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth Painter is a retired Research Associate of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199242364
ISBN 13 
9780199242368
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
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