The Boscoreale Treasure
The Boscoreale Treasure: still unexplained.
Roman silver buried by Vesuvius
In a villa buried by Vesuvius near Pompeii, diggers found a hoard of more than a hundred pieces of Roman silver plate and gold coins, hidden in a wine cellar as the ash came down.
- Found in 1895 in the wine cellar of a villa buried by Vesuvius near Pompeii, where the silver had been hidden as the ash came down; over a hundred pieces, with a skeleton lying nearby.
What remains open
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.
- Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
- Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
- Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.
Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.
- The Boscoreale Treasure · archive record · tertiary · encyclopedia
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