Egypt
Looting Matters (David Gill)
- More Re The St Louis Mask
Looting Matters (David Gill) David Gill has had a look a the the St Louis Art Museum in the context of its membership of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). In 2008 the AAMD published "2008 Report of the AAMD Subcommittee on the Acquisition...
- David Gill And Repatriation
Wales Online This article about the excellent work of David Gill barely touches on Egypt but the subject is both relevant to Egypt and important on a global scale. And yet another reference to Indiana Jones. Sigh. LIKE Indiana Jones, Dr David Gill delights...
- The Value Of Ancient Egypt At Sotheby's, New York
Looting Matters (David Gill) David Gill has been keeping an eye on the sales of Egyptian antiquities at Sotheby's. See the above page for his graph showing a comparison of the value of lots sold in the December and June sales in Sotheby's New...
- The Sale Of Egyptian Antiquities At Sotheby's: A Reflection
David Gill's Looting Matters Blog David Gill (currently a member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales ), who has been featured on this site before, has updated his blog with a few very well expressed...
- Museum Watchdog
Archaeology Magazine () An interview with David Gill is now available on Archaeology's website. David Gill, a professor of archaeology at the University of Wales Swansea, is the author of a number of studies on the antiquities market. With his colleague...
Egypt
The Intellectual Consequences of Collecting Coptic Art
Looting Matters (David Gill)
Following on from recent reports about fact Coptic art held in museum collections, David Gill has made the brief point that he and Christopher Chippindale have been making for many years - which is that "Collecting recently-surfaced antiquities (ancient or of modern creation) has intellectual consequences for the study of the ancient world," a point which they initially made with regard to Cycladic figures in an article entitled Material and Intellectual Consequences of Esteem for Cycladic Figures (
Anyone who has looked at Predynastic archaeology in Egypt is well aware of the problem too - the number of unprovenanced palettes, labels, figurines and ceramics is quite staggering and with many of them it is unknown whether they are genuine or not. I was told recently that a set of "Predynastic" figurines in the British Museum are now considered to be fakes - which was more than a shame for the researcher friend who was planning to use them in part of his work! And the Harrogate Vase is a good case in point.
Anyone who has looked at Predynastic archaeology in Egypt is well aware of the problem too - the number of unprovenanced palettes, labels, figurines and ceramics is quite staggering and with many of them it is unknown whether they are genuine or not. I was told recently that a set of "Predynastic" figurines in the British Museum are now considered to be fakes - which was more than a shame for the researcher friend who was planning to use them in part of his work! And the Harrogate Vase is a good case in point.
- More Re The St Louis Mask
Looting Matters (David Gill) David Gill has had a look a the the St Louis Art Museum in the context of its membership of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). In 2008 the AAMD published "2008 Report of the AAMD Subcommittee on the Acquisition...
- David Gill And Repatriation
Wales Online This article about the excellent work of David Gill barely touches on Egypt but the subject is both relevant to Egypt and important on a global scale. And yet another reference to Indiana Jones. Sigh. LIKE Indiana Jones, Dr David Gill delights...
- The Value Of Ancient Egypt At Sotheby's, New York
Looting Matters (David Gill) David Gill has been keeping an eye on the sales of Egyptian antiquities at Sotheby's. See the above page for his graph showing a comparison of the value of lots sold in the December and June sales in Sotheby's New...
- The Sale Of Egyptian Antiquities At Sotheby's: A Reflection
David Gill's Looting Matters Blog David Gill (currently a member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales ), who has been featured on this site before, has updated his blog with a few very well expressed...
- Museum Watchdog
Archaeology Magazine () An interview with David Gill is now available on Archaeology's website. David Gill, a professor of archaeology at the University of Wales Swansea, is the author of a number of studies on the antiquities market. With his colleague...