The stock of the as yet anonymous Japanese that went on display in the Colosseum this morning was not without significance. The press photographs included a red-figured hydria. The same piece appears in Polaroids from the Medici Dossier seized in the Geneva Freeport.
It seems this is a case of "Chippindale's Law": the scale of the problem is far worse than anticipated.
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Press photographs © MiBAC / Carabinieri; Polaroid from the Medici Dossier, courtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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