The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been keeping quiet over the return of fragments once in the significant private collection of Dietrich von Bothmer.
Did the fragments match or fit pots that were formerly in other collections?
Do the fragments point us back to network of those selling recently surfaced antiquities?
Does silence from the Met authorities indicate that there is something that they would prefer to keep hidden?
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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