Thursday, 1 March 2018

Making sense of pottery fragments


This seminar will consider the issue of how pot fragments have been acquired by museums. It will focus on the pots that have been returned to Italy where fragments have been supplied by a range of different donors. Do the patterns apply to other pots that have yet to be investigated? Why were museum curators unaware of the patterns of donation that allowed complete pots to be created? The more disturbing question relates to the possibility that pots were deliberately fragmented in order to allow them to move across international frontiers.

Entry is free but please reserve a place.

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Source: Michael C. Carlos Museum The Michael C. Carlos Museum has handed over ownership of two Laconian cup fragments that had been donated ...