I would like to make an apology to Hugh Eakin in the wake of his piece in the New York Times [my response]. It was inappropriate of me to suggest that he was writing to prepare the way for another organisation.
Eakin and I disagree on our response to the antiquities "scandal", but I hope that we can continue to debate the core issues.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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The Stern Collection of Cycladicising Figures
My review article on the Stern collection of Cycladicising figures currently on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has bee...
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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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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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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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I wonder if Mr. Eakin will be ask kind and apologize to those working in source countries who he painted as extortionists.
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