Showing posts with label Robin Symes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robin Symes. Show all posts
October 20, 2025

The Aboutaam Brothers, Phoenix Ancient Art, and the Hidden Routes of Italy’s Lost Antiquities

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Phoenix Ancient Art - BRAFA 2019  With a precautionary seizure order, filed by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, led by Prosecutor St...
May 25, 2025

A Slap on the Amphora: After 17 years of court filings, only mild sentences in Greece’s landmark antiquities trafficking case

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The private peninsula on the the Island of Schinoussa, currently owned by the Papadimitriou family. A long time ago, on an island not so far...
September 6, 2022

Museum restitutions are more than just the sum of their numbers

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Image Credit - HSI - ICE On 21 February 2006 the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Italian government signed an agreement under which the M...
June 29, 2020

Object Alert: An Illicit antiquity breezes through the windy city

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Hindman Auction Catalogue - 16 June 2020 Lot 157 Most of the time, when one thinks of illicit antiquities one imagines them transiti...
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June 10, 2020

A Greek Horse in the US Courts

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Image Credit: ARCA Screenshot taken 02 May 2018 A little more than two years ago, on 01 May 2018 ARCA was informed by Dr. Christos T...
November 3, 2019

Dear Christie's: What's the story on your provenance on this antefix?

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An interesting antefix has been published with Christie's as part of their December 4, 2019 sales event which deserves a closer exam...
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