Thursday, 28 August 2008

Intellectual Consequences of Collecting Antiquity

It is easy to be disturbed by the destruction of archaeological sites to supply antiquities. But what are the intellectual consequences as the pieces enter the corpus of knowledge?

Here are some of the topics covered so far:
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One of the pieces returned to Italy: an Attic red-figured column-krater showing Dionysos, attributed to the Geras painter.

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Lydian Hoard: More Returns to Türkiye

Source: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned two more pieces of silver from the Lydia...