Showing posts with label ethical collecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethical collecting. Show all posts
January 31, 2021

Sometimes restitution is a little like putting lipstick on a pig

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Left: Steve Green and the Controversial Coptic Galatians fragment first offered on eBay in 2012 by Yakup Ekşioğlu. Right: Douglas Latchford ...
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May 19, 2020

Prosecutors file a civil forfeiture complaint for the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet which they say was looted from Iraq.

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The Gilgamesh dream tablet, Iraq, c. 1600 BCE while on display at Museum of the Bible “Strange things have been spoken, why does your h...
April 16, 2020

Dirk Obbink arrested on suspicion of ancient papyrus theft

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It has now been made public, by the Oxford Blue that American papyrologist Dr. Dirk Obbink, an associate professor in papyrology and Gr...
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March 28, 2020

The Museum of The Bible's Chairman's letter leaves many unanswered questions

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Issued on 26 March 2010 and uploaded quietly to the Museum of the Bible website  here .  S tatement on Past Acquisitions  Published...
November 18, 2019

At least 120 pieces of papyri appear to be missing from the Egypt Exploration Society collection

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 Papyrus from the EES Collection Graeco-Roman Memoir 103/Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXII In continuing their internal investigation surroundi...
October 24, 2019

The Gospel Truth? How the laundering of papyri washes away its provenance sins

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Archived Facebook Screenshot The Castle Folio Page Image Credit: ARCA Earlier on this blog we reported on an entry published on the O...
October 19, 2019

A statement from Dirk Obbink and an interesting link to Mahmoud Elder, Scott Carroll and a collector named Andrew Stimer

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Screenshot: 19 October 2019 https://www.museumofthebible.org/collections/artifacts/7505-letter-from-plutarchos-to-theoninos-poxy-1775#/ ...