Figure 1
The progress of the excavation of Herculaneum during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Figure 2
The excavation of Herulaneum c.1929. Maiuri 1932: 16.
Figure 3
Ercolano poster by Marcello Dudovich c.1930. Image courtesy of Poster Photo Archives, Rennert’s Gallery, NY.
Figure 4
The Education Minister Giuseppe Bottai with Amedeo Maiuri (left) at Herculaneum 25 September 1938. Photographer: Studio Troncone. © Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, Fondo fotografico Giuseppe Bottai A11_B29_F01.
Figure 5
Mussolini as Hercules in the skin of the Nemean lion. Littorali medal 1932 Casolari 1996 X/58. http://www.mpa41.com/medaglie.asp?anno=1932.
Figure 6
Herculaneum medal 1938. Hercules fighting the Nemean lion. Casolari 1996 XVI/87 Obverse. Text on the edge: ANNO CC A PRIMIS ERUTIS HERCULANEI VESTIGIIS MDCCXXXVIII-MCMXXXVIII. http://www.mpa41.com/medaglie.asp?anno=1938.
Figure 7
The ruins of Herculaneum and commemorative text framed by bundled lictorial fasces. Casolari 1996 XVI/87. Reverse. Text: AD NOVAS HERCULANENSES EFFOSSIONES ABHINC ANNOS XI IUSSU BENITI MUSSOLINI DENUO SUSCEPTAS ACRIUS PERACTAS RITE MEMORANDAS KAL. OCTOBR. MCMXXXVIII A FASC. REST. XVI. http://www.mpa41.com/medaglie.asp?anno=1938.
| ACS | Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome |
| AABBAA | Antichità e Belle Arti |
| ASDMAE | Archivio storico diplomatico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Rome |
| AP | Affari Politici 1919–1930 |
| b. | busta (box) |
| fasc. | fascicolo (folder) |