The box contained silver tableware consisting of 109 items and a leather bag full of coins to the value of a thousand gold aurei.

Many items of precious metal were abandoned in Pompeii and its surrounding area by their owners as they attempted to flee the destruction.

Most of the Boscoreale Treasure was illicitly trafficked out of Italy and was later purchased by Baron Edmond de Rothschild who donated it to the Louvre Museum in 1896.

It is assumed that the owner of the villa and the entire property is L. Caecilius lucundus, a banker from Pompeii, who inherited the wealth of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Campania, and that he was the father of Maxima.

Many of the silver items from the treasure are considered masterpieces of Roman art that could only have belonged to the very elite sections of society.