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Letter, 'An account of the late discoveries of antiquities at Herculaneum' from Camillo Paderni to Thomas Hollis

Reference number: L&P/3/215

Date: 16 December 1756

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the late discoveries of antiquities at Herculaneum; in an extract of a Letter from Camillo Paderni, Keeper of the Herculanean Museum, and F. R. S. to Thomas Hollis, Esq; dated Naples, Dec. 16, 1756'

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Reference number
L&P/3/215
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16 December 1756
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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Camillo Paderni

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Camillo Paderni, Letter, 'An account of the late discoveries of antiquities at Herculaneum' from Camillo Paderni to Thomas Hollis, 16 December 1756, L&P/3/215, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_215/letter-an-account-of-the-late-discoveries-of-antiquities-at-herculaneum-from-camillo-paderni-to-thomas-hollis, accessed on 14 February 2025

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