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Esquiline Treasure, the Glossary

The Esquiline Treasure is an ancient Roman silver treasure that was found in 1793 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome.^[1]

66 relations: Alan Cameron (classicist), Alaric I, Alexandria, Amphora, Ancient Roman units of measurement, Antioch, Aphrodite, Augst, Augusta Raurica, British Museum, Carthage Treasure, Cetus (mythology), Chlamys, Colobium sindonis, Constantine the Great, Constantinople, Corbridge Lanx, Cornucopia, Early Christian art and architecture, Elisabeth Munksgaard, Ennio Quirino Visconti, Epitaph, Erotes, Esquiline Hill, Frieze, Gilding, Gold glass, Greek mythology, Hippocampus (mythology), Hoxne Hoard, Iconography, Jaś Elsner, Kurt Weitzmann, Late antiquity, List of Roman hoards in Great Britain, London, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mildenhall Treasure, Mumbai, Muses, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Nereids, New Delhi, Orazio Marucchi, Orontes River, Pediment, Petit Palais, Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas, Pope Damasus I, Putto, ... Expand index (16 more) »
1793 archaeological discoveries
Ancient Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum
Ancient Roman metalwork
Late Roman Empire art
Treasure troves of late antiquity

Alan Cameron (classicist)

Alan Douglas Edward Cameron, (13 March 1938 – 31 July 2017) was a British classicist and academic.

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Alaric I

Alaric I (𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, Alarīks, "ruler of all"; c. 370 – 411 AD) was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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An amphora (ἀμφορεύς|; English) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea.

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Ancient Roman units of measurement

The units of measurement of ancient Rome were generally consistent and well documented.

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Antioch

Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Augst

Augst (Swiss German: Augscht) is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

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Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum in Switzerland located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Carthage Treasure

The Carthage Treasure is a Roman silver hoard, which was found in Tunis, Tunisia, at the site of the ancient city of Carthage. Esquiline Treasure and Carthage Treasure are ancient Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum, ancient Roman metalwork, silver objects and Treasure troves of late antiquity.

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Cetus (mythology)

In Ancient Greek ketos (κῆτος, plural kete/ketea, κήτη/κήτεα), Latinized as cetus (pl. ceti or cete.

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Chlamys

The chlamys (Ancient Greek: χλαμύς, chlamýs, genitive: χλαμύδος, chlamydos) was a type of an ancient Greek cloak.

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Colobium sindonis

The colobium sindonis (Latin for "shroud tunic") is a simple sleeveless white linen shift worn by British monarchs during part of the coronation service.

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Constantine the Great

Constantine I (27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Corbridge Lanx

The Corbridge Lanx is the name of a Roman silver dish found near Corbridge, Northern England in 1735. Esquiline Treasure and Corbridge Lanx are silver objects and Treasure troves of late antiquity.

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Cornucopia

In classical antiquity, the cornucopia, from Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts.

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Early Christian art and architecture

Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525.

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Elisabeth Munksgaard

Elisabeth Munksgaard (1924 – 13 November 1997) was a Danish historian and from 1962 until retiring in 1990, the assistant Keeper in the Department of the Prehistory of Denmark at the National Museum of Denmark.

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Ennio Quirino Visconti

Ennio Quirino Visconti (November 1, 1751 – February 7, 1818) was a Roman politician, antiquarian, and art historian, papal Prefect of Antiquities, and the leading expert of his day in the field of ancient Roman sculpture.

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Epitaph

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person.

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Erotes

In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Erotes (ἔρωτες, érōtes) are a collective of winged gods associated with love and sexual intercourse.

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Esquiline Hill

The Esquiline Hill (Collis Esquilinus; Esquilino) is one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

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Frieze

In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Gilding

Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone.

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Gold glass

Gold glass or gold sandwich glass is a luxury form of glass where a decorative design in gold leaf is fused between two layers of glass.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Hippocampus (mythology)

The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος|lit.

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Hoxne Hoard

The Hoxne Hoard is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire. Esquiline Treasure and Hoxne Hoard are Treasure troves of late antiquity.

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Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

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Jaś Elsner

John Richard "Jaś" Elsner, (born 19 December 1962) is a British art historian and classicist, who is Professor of Late Antique Art in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford (since 2014), Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (since 1999), and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago (since 2003).

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Kurt Weitzmann

Kurt Weitzmann (March 7, 1904, Kleinalmerode (Witzenhausen, near Kassel) – June 7, 1993, Princeton, New Jersey) was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of Late Antique and Byzantine art in particular.

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Late antiquity

Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.

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List of Roman hoards in Great Britain

The list of Roman hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with period of Romano-British culture when Southern Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent Sub-Roman period up to the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Mildenhall Treasure

The Mildenhall Treasure is a large hoard of 34 masterpieces of Roman silver tableware from the fourth century AD, and by far the most valuable Roman objects artistically and by weight of bullion in Britain. Esquiline Treasure and Mildenhall Treasure are silver objects and Treasure troves of late antiquity.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Muses

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Moûsai, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts.

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National Archaeological Museum, Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (italic, abbr. MANN) is an important Italian archaeological museum, particularly for ancient Roman remains.

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Nereids

In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (Nērēḯdes;, also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Orazio Marucchi

Orazio Marucchi (1852 - January 1931, Rome) was an Italian archaeologist and author of the Manual of Christian Archaeology.

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Orontes River

The Orontes (from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης) or Nahr al-ʿĀṣī, or simply Asi (translit,; Asi) is a long river in Western Asia that begins in Lebanon, flowing northwards through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Hatay Province, Turkey.

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Pediment

Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.

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Petit Palais

The (Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas

Pierre-Louis Jean Casimir, Count of Blacas d'Aulps (10 January 1771 – 17 November 1839), later created 1st Duke of Blacas (1821), was a French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration.

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Pope Damasus I

Pope Damasus I (c. 305 – 11 December 384), also known as Damasus of Rome, was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death.

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Putto

A putto (plural putti) is a figure in a work of art depicted as a chubby male child, usually naked and very often winged.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Religion in ancient Rome

Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule.

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Repoussé and chasing

Repoussé or repoussage is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief.

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Rimini

Rimini (Rémin or; Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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San Martino ai Monti

San Martino ai Monti, officially known as Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti ("Saints Sylvester & Martin in the Mountains"), is a minor basilica in Rome, Italy, in the Rione Monti neighbourhood.

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Seuso Treasure

The Seuso Treasure or Sevso Treasure (Seuso-kincsek; Seusovo blago), is a hoard of silver objects (14 items) from the late Roman Empire. Esquiline Treasure and Seuso Treasure are late Roman Empire art, silver objects and Treasure troves of late antiquity.

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Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych

The Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych is a book-size Late Antique ivory diptych dating to the late fourth or early fifth century, whose panels depict scenes of ritual pagan religious practices.

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Theodosius I

Theodosius I (Θεοδόσιος; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was a Roman emperor from 379 to 395.

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Trier

Trier (Tréier), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany.

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Tyche

Tyche (Ancient Greek: Τύχη Túkhē, 'Luck',,; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity who governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny.

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Tyche of Constantinople

The Tyche of Constantinople was the deity of fortune (Tyche) who embodied the guardianship (tutela) of the city of Constantinople in the Roman Imperial era.

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Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani; Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome.

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Visigoths

The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.

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Water Newton Treasure

The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of fourth-century Roman silver, discovered near the location of the Roman town of Durobrivae at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire in 1975. Esquiline Treasure and Water Newton Treasure are silver objects and Treasure troves of late antiquity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquiline_Treasure

Also known as Projecta Casket.

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See also

1793 archaeological discoveries

Ancient Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum

Ancient Roman metalwork

Late Roman Empire art

Treasure troves of late antiquity

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