Largest hoard of Ancient Silver

With about 160 works, the exhibition offers insight into the significance of Roman luxury arts. Highlights include two important silver statuettes of the Roman god Mercury; superbly worked Late Antique missoria (silver platters); drinking cups, offering bowls, and other vessels; cameos; intaglios; jewelry; figurines; and a fragment of a mosaic from Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli. These and other objects represent some of the greatest surviving achievements of the artisans of the Roman Empire.

'Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury' runs to January 6, 2019 at The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.