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Title: Herculaneum, past, present & future
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waldstein, Charles, Sir, 1856-1927 Shoobridge, Leonard Knollys Haywood
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t it stood in that part ofTorresi called Sora. He goes on to relate several discoveriesaccidentally made in various places which he names quitedistinctly, and states that ancient buildings were uncovered.In 1689 ancient monuments were accidentally found at agreat depth (Memoircs de litterature, vol. 15). Celani in 1697speaks of a beautiful plain which up to 1631 was extremelyfertile as a pasturage, but was then covered with unfruitfulashes. Here, he says, stood the ancient Herculaneum : in hisown days many old brick remains were to be seen there.Bianchini, in Istoria Universale, Rome, 1699, clearly recordscertain finds made in the neighbourhood in 1689. That manyof these discoveries were incorrectly associated with the name ^ Cf. J. A. Galante, op. cit. p. 107. ^ De Jorio, Notizie su gli Sctivi di Ercolano, Naples, 1827, pp. 13 ff., from which thefollowing statements are borrowed. ^ Cf. Nicola Perotto in Cornucopia, 1488. ^ Cf. also Leandro Alberti, Descrizione di tutta rItalia, 1561.
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FIVE MARBLE BUSTS.Life-size. ? Altilius Rcgulus, Philosopher, ? Pcriander, Euripides, Roman portrait. Pl.ATI 26. CHAP. IV HISTORY OF SITE SINCE ERUPTION 127 of Herculaneum is no doubt very probable. Neverthelessthese few instances amply prove the falsity of the often-repeatedstatement, that all memory of Herculaneum had passed awaywhen in 1709 the Prince dElbouuf accidentally struck partof the site of the theatre. He extracted a number of statues,of which a considerable proportion seem ultimately to havefound their way to the Royal, now the National Museum ofNaples. Some are believed still to stand in the niches of theRoyal Palace of Portici,^ confused with others of differentorigin. Many were probably sent as presents to variouscountries. Three of these, draped female marble figures, arenow in the Sixth Hall of the Museum of Antiquities atDresden, Nos. 162, 163, 164. They are reproduced on PlateVII. The details of their history are somewhat obscure, but itseems to be certain that the

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