There is a report in the Italian press that the house of Gianfranco Becchina in Castelvetrano sustained a shotgun attack ("Escalation di attentati intimidatori a Castelvetrano e Campobello", Marsala.it, January 24, 2012). Becchina has been linked to a number of antiquities that passed through Switzerland on the way to North American public and private collections.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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Lions from the archaic Panionion
Source: MMA In 1992 three terracotta antefixes decorated with the heads of lions were acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
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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...
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Tarentine funerary relief Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Manhattan DA has provided limited details about the recent return of antiqu...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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