One of the issues that LM will be exploring is the way that museum curators have encouraged private collectors to acquire objects that are then "donated" to the museum. This raises the issue of how we define a "private collection". We should recall that the stock of one London dealer was even described as from an English private collection.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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Further returns from the Getty announced
Source: The Getty Museum It has been announced that the Getty will be returning a further number of antiquities to Italy (" Getty Museu...
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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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Photo: Becchina Archive Source: Christos Tsirogiannis An Attic black-figured amphora attributed to the manner of the Princeton painter has b...
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James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? has received a series of critical reviews . Cuno has now responded on the Princeton University Press ...
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