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This silver treasury, which dates back to the fifth century A.D. was found in Rome on the Caelian Hill and donated by the Marquis Angelo Gabrielli to Benedict XIV (1757) for the Christian Museum.
The silver artefacts, probably hidden on the Caelian Hill during the fifth or sixth centuries A.D. (a period in which Rome was ravaged by barbarians and war) were initially ten in number in 1757, but now only four remain. They are two small bottles, partially gilded with busts of Sts. Peter and Paul in frames of acanthus scrolls, in the first (late fourth – early fifth century), and with cruciferous haloes in the other (fifth century), with a votive inscription on the edge; a glass (fifth century) which personalises the Gospel dictum omnis enim qui petit, accipit (“Ask, and it shall be given to you”) and recites: Petibi et accipi. Votum solv[i …] (“I asked and it was given to me. I have fulfilled my vow…”), and a plate (missorium) depicting the scene of a wild boar hunt (fifth century).