forgingantiquity

and @DrRachelYC and @malfy_c forgery, ethics, provenance, reception

[Årstein Justnes @arsteinjustnes]

Deadline for abstracts: August 15!
https://t.co/m0OBJjQCfx
#LyingPen

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

“The Picassos are fake, but no art fraud has been committed because the artist did not attempt to create false provenance for the works, nor did she attempt to sell them.”
art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s reputation
https://t.co/PfkO8q8sIE

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

MOLA is here!!

[Museum of Looted Antiquities @MuseumofLoot]

Hi everyone, thanks for following us. We're excited to have https://t.co/uFReBXEmWh finally out in the wild and look forward to sharing new developments in the days and weeks ahead.

What to look for here:

[Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia @res_australes]

#blog Another Cycladic Head, Another Curious Provenance - by Richard Bott @RichardBott7 - Marks of Authenticity blog @forgingantiq - https://t.co/phFCVWNtDJ

[Henning Melber @HenningMelber]

A new volume on numerous aspects of "Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts" (including some Namibian case studies) has just been published - entirely open access 👇
https://t.co/iheBoiPeAN

[Times of Türkiye @TimesofTurkiye]

📍Diyarbakır'da düzenlenen tarihi eser kaçakçılığı operasyonunda altın yazma İbranice kitap ele geçirildi.

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Did we miss this at the time, @eviehandby ?

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Bible manuscript written in Syriac, written in Jesus' native language; about 2000 years old.

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

#archaeohistories

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Our @forgingantiq BPhil interns Brooke Gallucci and Oli Hastings both gave great presentations at the @mq_dha HDR&ECR conference last week on the work they’ll do with @DrRachelYC on Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri in their MRes theses- look out for more of their work next year!

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

#CFP for May ‘24 conf on Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions Workshop; paging @eviehandby in particular.
(Thanks for the page @radey_ !)

[James F. McGrath @ReligionProf]

Upcoming Workshop - Call for Proposals #CFP

May 16-17, 2024: Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions Workshop.

https://t.co/uXCBtwcWHW

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Great to see @eviehandby’s article on fake Torahs published! Great work Evie!

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Coming soon, The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, edited by Rita Lucarelli (@ritaluc) and Martin Stadler, featuring a chapter on fake Books of the Dead by @ritaluc and @malfy_c. Available for preorder now at https://t.co/BvANLZcQwg

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Fantastic new collection of essays ed. @mokersel, Neil Brodie & @JjosseMunch, including an essay by @DrRachelYC on “Between representation and the real: the forgeries of Constantine Simonides”
https://t.co/rESq1NiaxJ

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Imagined histories, the creation of pasts and more.

[Rachel Y-C 🇵🇸 @DrRachelYC]

More than a year ago the incredible @karen_pearlman, Tom Murray & Alex Ryan (and their wonderful production team) filmed Hsu-Ming Teo, Rowan Tulloch, @malfy_c, @DrStephR & myself rambling about (re)imagined histories personal & otherwise.

[Dr Anna-Latifa Mourad د. آنا-لطيفة مراد @anna_latifa]

While the damage to historical and archaeological sites in #earthquake-affected areas of Syria and Turkiye is devastating, now is not the time to focus on these monuments. Now is the time to focus on people. Below are a couple of ways:

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

.@RichardBott7 flying the @forgingantiq flag at #ASCS44!

[Richard Bott @RichardBott7]

Very grateful for the opportunity to present some of my research on the collection of forged papyri in the 1920s at ASCS! @ASCS1966 @forgingantiq @mq_dha

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Great to see! Thanks so much @KeithSweeney5 and @EgyptCurator! We’re looking forward to taking a closer look at these creations of our favourite forger!

[Marc Balcells @artcrimeHQ]

‘The handwriting is wrong’: Dickens letters dismissed as forgeries https://t.co/yFyLQ3aKYm

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

#ForgeryFriday Getty Gnaios 🧵👇

[Richard Bott @RichardBott7]

#ForgeryFriday this week features the “Getty Gnaios.” This amethyst intaglio has Mark Antony in profile and the name of a famous 1st c. BCE gem-carver (ΓNAIOC). Once considered an excellent example of ancient gem-carving, Lapatin has demonstrated that it is a likely 19th c. fake

[Jacqueline Hylkema @JacqHylkema]

#FakeFriday: My deceptive desk at @ubleiden - with Inghirami and Psalmanazar (for a new #forgery course) and Dutch translations of Ossian and the Monita Secreta (for the collection). Life is good in #thefakerepublic | #twitterstorians

[forgingantiquity @forgingantiq]

Wow- we love your project @JacqHylkema! Can’t wait to see what you find!

[Jacqueline Hylkema @JacqHylkema]

Very excited to start my new project at Leiden University Library today: over the next few years, I will be building the first Special Collection of Dutch fakes and forgeries (1550-1800). #thefakerepublic