In 1885, during excavations on the southwest slope of the Quirinal Hill, two magnificent Hellenistic bronzes were discovered by Rodolfo Lanciani. Although Lanciani dated the burial of the bronzes to the era of the barbarian attacks on the city of Rome, here it will be argued that the bronzes may have been excavated elsewhere by clandestine diggers and then reburied on the Quirinal slope, in a stash of robbers’ loot. Utilizing newly located archival sources that shed fresh light on the excavation, and interrogating Lanciani's published accounts of it, this paper presents a case study of this small area of the hill. This leads in turn to an investigation of Lanciani's practice as a cartographer in plate XXII of his Forma Urbis Romae where the hillside was subsequently depicted. Plate XXII has a wider relevance for any user of the FUR because a close analysis of this one plate suggests that Lanciani's representation of the southwest Quirinal is dominated by a cartographic rhetoric. This is composed of significant omissions, obfuscations and graphic hierarchies all of which are employed to influence and manipulate the reader. It is argued that plate XXII of Lanciani's map is a persuasive rendering rather than a disinterested record of the ancient structures that were found buried there. This has significance for any reader of the FUR.

1885 年，鲁道夫·兰恰尼 (Rodolfo Lanciani) 在奎里纳尔山西南坡的发掘过程中发现了两件宏伟的希腊化青铜器。尽管兰恰尼将这些青铜器的埋葬年代确定为野蛮人袭击罗马城的时代，但这里有人认为，这些青铜器可能是由秘密挖掘者在其他地方挖掘出来的，然后被重新埋在奎里纳尔斜坡上的强盗藏匿处。 ' 掠夺。本文利用新找到的档案资料，为发掘工作提供了新的线索，并询问了兰恰尼发表的有关发掘的记录，提出了对山上这一小片区域的案例研究。这反过来导致了对兰恰尼作为制图师的实践的调查，在他的Forma Urbis Romae的第 XXII 版中，随后描绘了山坡。第 XXII 版图对于FUR的任何用户都具有更广泛的相关性，因为对这一图版的仔细分析表明，兰恰尼对西南奎里纳尔的描绘主要是由制图修辞所主导的。这是由重大遗漏、混淆和图形层次结构组成的，所有这些都是为了影响和操纵读者。有人认为，兰恰尼地图的第 XXII 版是一种有说服力的描绘，而不是对埋藏在那里的古代建筑的公正记录。这对于FUR的任何读者都具有重要意义。