The Berthouville silver treasure and Roman luxury
by Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., Colonna, Cécile, Fauduet, Isabelle, Avisseau, Mathilde, Gautier, Gaëlle, Lansing-Maish, Susan, Leader-Newby, Ruth, Sánchez, Eduardo, (Conservateur de musée), J. Paul Getty Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
"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 Ga…