 In June, the discovery of a carefully secreted wooden box containing imperial scepters and ceremonial lance-heads and halberds, dating to the fourth century.The three scepters had handgrips of orichalcum, the prized golden-colored brass alloy, with glass and chalcedony globes.The following month her report that her team had uncovered the frescoed corridor of a grand aristocratic "domus" of the first century BCE, the so-called Palatine House, led to hopes that it may prove to be the birthplace of Augustus.