Saturday, 22 December 2018
Thefts from Archaeological Stores and Museums
One observable phenomenon in recent years has been that some recovered material was derived, not from an unexcavated archaeological site, but from archaeological museums and stores. This is explored in my latest column, 'Context Matters', for The Journal of Art Crime 20 (Fall 2018), entitled 'Thefts from museums and archaeological stores'. While many of the pieces come from collections in Italy, others are recorded from Greece, Egypt, and Libya.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
PAS and Finds in Eastern England
© David Gill, 2021 I have been doing some work on the results of the RSA Heritage Index (2020) with a focus, in part, on eastern England. Th...
-
Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
Source: Christos Tsirogiannis Associate Professor Christos Tsirogiannis of Aarhus University has identified a Roman marble statue that surfa... -
James Cuno (in Who Owns Antiquity? [2008]) takes six objects from the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago to demonstrate its character...
No comments:
Post a comment