Crime and Trials
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Somewhat strange (to me) item apparently circulating with not enough detail on the AP Wire … from PR Inside: Police in northern Greece say they have seized six sections of ancient marble columns from a junkyard and arrested the owners for antiquity smuggling. The sections of the 2,300-year-old columns are up to 13 feet (4…
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Assorted items of interest which may or may not make it to the English-reading press: A pair of 5th/4th century B.C. burials found during sewer construction in Canosa: Canosa, dalla terra un tesoro Due tombe del IVsec. A.C. (Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno) From the same period come similar finds from Castellaneta; the site is clearly much…
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This one’s been bursting all over the newswires for the past few hours … plenty of coverage, but the incipit to the LA Times version (plus their photo) seems to be most of the info that’s circulating now: In its latest effort to return wayward ancient artworks to their rightful owners, the J. Paul Getty Museum…
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In case you were wondering … the trial of all those folks associated with the so-called ‘Jesus Ossuary’ has ‘stalled’ (for want of a better term, I suppose). The Jerusalem Post has a lengthy piece … here’s the interesting bits: According to the Antiquities Authority, Deutsch and Golan conspired to forge an ancient decanter, several…
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As I try to cleanup the backlog caused by assorted technical things over the past couple of weeks, I have come across an item I misfiled which I find to be very interesting. The Sunday Herald (February 27, 2009) reports on the ‘sudden’ (for want of a better term) decline in tombaroli. It begins thusly:…
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