Reconstruction and Contextualization of the Julio-Claudian Group from the Borghese Excavations at Gabii
The Borghese excavations carried out by Gavin Hamilton at Gabii in 1792–93, which yielded an outstanding set of sculptures now in the Louvre, were of remarkable importance to the antiquarian culture of the late eighteenth century.¹ Carlo Fea immediately circulated a brief account of the finds; Jörge...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Borghese excavations carried out by Gavin Hamilton at Gabii in 1792–93, which yielded an outstanding set of sculptures now in the Louvre, were of remarkable importance to the antiquarian culture of the late eighteenth century.¹ Carlo Fea immediately circulated a brief account of the finds; Jörgen Zoëga went to the site and left a meticulous description of it; Hamilton sent a copy of the inscriptions he uncovered to his client, Charles Townley; Marini’s publication of the acta of the Arval Brethren in 1795 already referred to inscriptions uncovered by Hamilton; and as early as 1797 Ennio Quirino Visconti |
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