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Letter, 'Of antiquities found at Herculaneum' from Camillo Paderni to Thomas Hollis

Reference number: L&P/2/543

Date: 28 October 1754

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Camillo Paderni, Keeper of the Herculaneum Museum, to Thomas Hollis, Esq; relating to the late discoveries at Herculaneum'

Read 12 December 1754

Reference number
L&P/2/543
Earliest possible date
28 October 1754
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Camillo Paderni

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Camillo Paderni, Letter, 'Of antiquities found at Herculaneum' from Camillo Paderni to Thomas Hollis, 28 October 1754, L&P/2/543, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_543/letter-of-antiquities-found-at-herculaneum-from-camillo-paderni-to-thomas-hollis, accessed on 15 February 2025

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