The Lyon-Vaise Hoard ({{Langx, fr, Trésor de Lyon-Vaise) is a 3rd-century ancient Roman
hoard
A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache. This would usually be with the intention of ...
of precious objects, found in
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
(Roman
Lugdunum
Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, ; modern Lyon, France) was an important Colonia (Roman), Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon, France, Lyon.
The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but cont ...
) in 1992 and now on display in the
Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon. It includes dishes, jewellery, statuettes and coins. It was buried for fear of Germanic raids and the coins in it allow its burial to be dated to after AD 258 (perhaps during the 259 raid).
Some pieces are displayed in the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon:
File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-Apollon.jpg, Apollo's silver statue
File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-Buste.jpg, Unknown young man head wearing a scale breastplate
File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-collier.jpg, Collar; emerald stones and gold nodes
File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-plateaux.jpg, Small silver plates
Roman Lyon
Treasure troves in France
Treasure troves of late antiquity
9th arrondissement of Lyon
Ancient Roman jewellery