Month	Verse	Painting	City	Jewel	Flower	Status	Immigration Group
August	3	11	Boston, MA	Peridot	Gadiolus	Found	Italy

Summary

The Boston Casque was found by Jason Krupat in 2018 near home plate, at the middle baseball field in Langone Park, Boston. This disovery was documented in an episode of Expedition Unkown. The Casque was dug up by an excavator during construction.

Map

Painting

Image matches

Painting	Clue	Source
	Gadiolus
	02213 is the zip code of the North End of boston	Mysterious Writings
	The latitude of Boston is 42
	The longitude of Boston is -71. A 70 with a backwards 7 can be seen near her right elbow

	The figure depicted is a witch (a nod to to the Salem Witch Trials) Her hair is shaped like a baseball diamond She seems to be opening Pandora's box	JJP on EU
	Boston globe	John Judge Palencar on Expedition Unknown
	Boston Pops	JJP On EU
	BOSTON S also stood for Salem Witch	JJP 12Treasures interview and EU
	Columbus looks like a match to some but JJP commented saying he used a model on The Secret Podcast	youtube The Secret
	The large circular window in the image is mean to represent a porthole on a ship like the USS constition, though the actual constitution doesn't really have portholes, though it does have hawse holes	youtube The Secret
		Confirmed by JJP on EU. USS Consitition Museum Signal Flag Chart
	North end warfs	JJP
	Home plate "feel at home" The casque was buried under or near home plate	JJP
	4 leaf clover - Boston Celtics?	Speculation

Verse Matches

Verse	Clue	Source
If Thucydides is North of Xenophon	Written on the outside of the Boston Public Library	Jason Krupat on Expedition Unknown, common searcher theory There is also a quote by Horacle Whalpole
Take five steps	Pass five warfs	Jason Krupat on on EU
In the area of his direction	To the North End	JK on EU
A green tower of lights	Tobin Bridge	Krupat on EU
In the middle section	In the middle of 3 ballfields	Krupat on EU
Near those Who pass the coliseum With with walls	Near Copps Hill Burying Ground and the ice rink (coliseum) Metal walls could be a reference the nickname of the USS consitution across the harbor's "Iron Sides" nickname.
Face the water	Face the Boston Harbor
Your back to the stairs	Your back to Copps Hill Terrace stairs	Unconfirmed
Feel at home	Feel for the treasure under home plate	Confirmed by find
All the letters Are here to see	This line is a mystery It may refer signal flags on USS constitution	Speculation
Eighteenth day Twelfth hour Lit by lamplight	These lines mostly likely reference Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Very likely
In truth, be free.	This line is a mystery. Theories include - It could be a reference to the image, which depicts Pandora freeing a fairy from Pandoras box - famous Saco & Vanzetti trial - John 8:32 "The truth will set you free".	Speculation

Pairing verse 3 to painting 11

There is no confirmed or concrete method of matches that pair verse 3 directly to painting 11. The verse and painting were paired individually to Boston via clues and the process of elimination.

How Paiting 11 was paired to Boston

• "Boston is at about 42N, 71W. The 42 is obvious on her left cuff, and the top figure of her "train" (with the triangles, just below her right elbow) is a pretty good 71 when you rotate the book 90 degrees" credit: Pine_Tree q4t
• Lots of globes in the picture, which may be a reference to the Boston Globe. A newspaper may be a pretty strong reference point for the authors/illustrators who wrote the book (confirmed by JJP). credit: Pine_Tree q4t
• The Italian theme was identified as fitting for Boston, which has the oldest Italian Section in the country (the North End).

How verse 3 was paired to Boston

• The lines "Eighteenth day / Twelfth hour / Lit by lamplight" were easily recognized as a reference to Paul Reverse's Ride (see Verse Matches)
• The lines "If Thucydides is / North of Xenophon" was suspected to be a reference to Boston via a Horace Walpole Quote credit: Robh q4t

Japanese Hint

The editor told me that if I gave you any hint at all, it would immediately solve the riddle.

Source: http://quest4treasure.co.uk/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=8158&p=15531 & 12 Treasures The Secret Podcast