The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii Volume IV : The Silver Treasure

by: Painter, K.S.

Price: 147,00 EURO

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The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
Volume IV: The Silver Treasure
Kenneth S. Painter
Insula of the Menander at Pompeii
The first volume detailing the only surviving complete Roman dinner service
Beautifully illustrated with over 30 plates

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 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.

The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii Volume IV : The Silver Treasure

by: Painter, K.S.

• ISBN-13: 9780199242368 / 978-0-19-924236-8
• ISBN-03: 0199242364 / 0-19-924236-4
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001

Price: 147,00 EURO

1 copy in stock