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Part of the Cycladic Corpus of Figures?
(2024) When you go to a museum to see an exhibition of ancient artifacts you expect them to be … ancient. You have been enticed into the sho...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
The Fire of Hephaistos exhibition included "seven bronzes ... that have been linked to the Bubon cache of imperial statues" (p. 1...
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Courtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis There appears to be excitement about the display of 161 Cycladicising objects at New York's Metropolit...
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as you probably know the protomes didnt sell at christies today.as i have been saying for years provenance is king when it comes to buying antiquities,especially high end pieces like these.what is a shame is that everything symes has sold is now guilty by association,you know as well as i do that symes sold many perfectly ligitimate pieces as well as the recently looted ones,allthough these protomes,due to their condition when photographed were probably looted.
of course if symes wasnt greedy and came to an amicable agreement with the papadimitrious the schinnoussa photos may never have seen the light of day.i think the papadimitrious made as much a contribution to bringing down the smuggling rings out of italy than the italian police.once their solicitors knew how many warehouses symes had and what he sold and for how much and to whom everything started to unravel.
kyri.
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