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Auctioning Ancient Art: A collection of 14 ancient silver dishes worth an estimated $70 million that will “rewrite the history of Roman art” will be sold unless its authenticity or ownership is challenged, Sotheby’s has announced. The Sevso Treasure has four large plates, five pitchers, a tall jar, two buckets, a basin, a lady’s toilet casket and a copper-alloy caldron in which the silver was believed to have been found in Lebanon in the mid-1970s. The 14 pieces, decorated with mythological and contemporary figures of the 4th and 5th centuries, outweigh the combined weight of the 98 pieces of the two other main silver treasures of the period, the New York auction house said. Sotheby’s is expected to offer the collection in the fall in Zurich.