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| #666906 in Books | 2014-11-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.00 x.90 x9.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| RARE ROMAN LUXURIES|By William Suddaby|A finely produced book of the Getty Museum with superb photographs including many details, exemplary scholarship, and elegant layout. The Berthouville Treasure was discovered by a French farmer in 1830 and consists of eighty-eight pieces of silver plate and two small statues. Many of the vessels are sumptuously ornamented, surely among t||
“This exhibition catalogue is an excellent study of a spectacular silver hoard from an ancient Roman shrine dedicated to the god Mercury in an area near the French town of Berthouville. . . . The essays are lucidly written; the illustrations, superb
In 1830 a farmer plowing a field near the village of Berthouville in Normandy, France, discovered a trove of ancient Roman silver objects weighing some 55 pounds (25 kilograms). The Berthouville treasure, as the find came to be known, includes two statuettes representing the Gallo-Roman god Mercury and approximately sixty vessels—bowls, cups, pitchers, and plates, many of which bear votive inscriptions—along with dozens of smaller components and fragment...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury | From J. Paul Getty Museum. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
