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Intro -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Methods -- Transiting Through the Antiquities Market -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data -- 3 Method -- 4 Analysis -- 5 Results -- 6 The Importance of Dealers -- 7 Using Social Network Analysis in Future Art Crime Research -- References -- Exploring Taste Formation and Performance in the Illicit Trade of Human Remains on Instagram -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Online Trade of Human Remains -- 2.1 Social Media Moderation -- 2.2 The Ethics of Social Media Research -- 3 A Methodology for Mapping Taste Performance -- 4 Teaching Machines to Understand Visual Similarity as Taste Performance -- 4.1 Building the Network -- 5 Results and Discussion -- 6 Post Metadata -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- #antiquitiesdealers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Internet Antiquities Market -- 3 The Role of Antiquities Dealers -- 4 The Construction and Use of Dealer Persona -- 5 Dataset -- 6 Results -- 6.1 The Performance of Trust and Discretion -- 6.2 The Performance of Expertise -- 6.3 The Performance of Legitimate Relationships with the Past -- 6.4 The Performance of Professional Ethics -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Evaluating the Transformative Potential of Photovoice for Research into the Global Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Academia´s Visual Turn -- 3 The Role of the Visual in Research into the Illicit Trade of Cultural Objects -- 4 Control, Collaboration, and Social Action: An Introduction to Photovoice -- 5 Potential Use of Photovoice for Research into Illicit Trade of Cultural Objects -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- A New Method of Forensic Archaeology -- 1 Helmet: The Background -- 2 Operations Helmet I and Helmet II -- 3 The Need to Locate the Origin of Archaeological Materials -- Legal Context in Spain -- 4 Criminology and Crime Maps.

The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage. This volume highlights the deleterious effects of the trade on cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon questions of legal and local responses: How can people become involved in the preservation of their past and what, in economic terms, are the costs and benefits? Are international conventions or export restrictions effective in diminishing the volume of the trade and the scale of its associated destruction?.

Forty years have passed since the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. In spite of this there have been major scandals relating to the acquisition of recently-surfaced antiquities by public museums and private individuals. The Italian government has obtained the return of over 100 antiquities from North American collections and these have been displayed in a series of high profile exhibitions. Greece and Egypt have made successful claims on other material. Some dealers appear to be willing to handle material that surfaced along similar routes in spite of this increased awareness of the problem of looting, North American museums have now adjusted their acquisition policies to align them with the 1970 Convention.

From human trafficking to smuggling small arms to looting antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? This book offers a novel, thought-provoking answer to this crucial question

This article deals with one manuscript in the archive of The State Hermitage museum. It is entitled "Catalogo della cospicua collezione de'Vasi antichi Italo-greci, de' vetri, delle terre cotte e de' bronzi di proprieta del Sig. Cav. Pizzati". The piece has been written ca 1833 by the outstanding Neapolitan antiquarian and connoisseur Raffaele Gargiulo. The author of present article considers the entries on the Corinthian and Italo-Corinthian vases. These texts give us an idea, how the pieces of this kind have been described and interpreted during the early period of its collecting and study.

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Based on fresh archival research this article examines the exchange of Romanizing statuary between Italy and Spain during the ventennio fascista. Between 1933 and 1943, Italy and Spain exchanged copies of Roman statues as symbolic gestures, to substantiate their claims to a shared classical heritage of 'imperial greatness'. Using press reports and documentary film excerpts the article reconstructs public events that took place in Merida, Tarragona, Palma, and Zaragoza and assesses their impact. Behind these exchanges, and public ceremonies staged on their occasion, lay the Fascist concept of romanità: an archaeologically and aesthetically charged discourse placing Late-Republican and Early-Imperial Roman heritage in the epicentre of Fascist identity politics. Through improvised public performances of romanità, classical materialities, monumental as well as spatial, were imbued with Fascist dynamics, as the past turned into the present and projected into the future. Through individual and collective performance these ceremonies embodied a primeval Fascist ideal that appeared at once spectacular and modern.

AbstractThis article contributes to our understanding of the links between forced exile, refugee trauma, and antiquities. It zooms in to the case of the Ottoman Greek refugees who fled to Greece in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the defeat of the Greek army by the Turkish National Movement forces in 1922. It critically discusses memories of ordinary people from Lithri (ancient Erythrai, modern-day Ildırı), Nymphaio (near ancient Sardeis, modern-day Kemalpaşa), and Ayasolouk (ancient Ephesus, modern-day Selçuk). It also looks at aspects of the literary world of Smyrna-born poet and Nobel Laureate George Seferis. It is argued that, for these refugees, antiquities served as conduits, symbols, metaphors, and allegories for expressing the trauma linked to their state of uprootedness and forced exile. The refugees in question employed reverse "rescue archaeologies," where it was for antiquities to salvage refugees rather than the other way round. The main primary material consulted consists of refugee testimonies from the Oral Tradition Archive of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies and Seferis's diary. The approach is interdisciplinary and, besides Ottoman Greek history, draws on cultural geography, anthropology, archaeology as well as broader discussions in memory studies and critical heritage studies.