Word: maiuri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amedeo Maiuri, 46, director of the National Museum in Naples and superintendent of the antiquities preserved in that neighborhood, has long been accustomed to make the 12 mi. trip to the Cumaean Rock and prowl speculatively through its grottoes. To the south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels...
...niches. The niches apparently afforded living quarters for the Sibyl and her servants. The large room must have been her audience chamber. (Virgil refers to its concavity.) From that chamber radiated three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...
Last week despatches from Rome told of another use for the divining rod. Maria Mataloni of Lepringnano startled savants several months ago by finding a Roman tomb with her divining rod near Capena, ruined ancient Etruscan town. Last week she was taken to Pompeii by Professor Amedeo Maiuri of Naples Museum, located several places in the buried city where, she said, were hidden gold, silver, bronze...