lootingmatters

Cultural property matters

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

Some of the objects on the table are ex Symes and ex Medici. Does anyone recognise the other pieces?

[David Gill @davidwjgill]

The return of antiquities to Italy by @ManhattanDA included material not only from @metmuseum but also prominent New York private collector @ChasingAphrodit @lootingmatters @sauterne

https://t.co/O7zqNIKvPp

[David Gill @davidwjgill]

Tsirogiannis, C., D. W. J. Gill, and C. Chippindale. 2025. "A Corrupt Cycladic Corpus of Marble Figures." Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 13: 203–33.
https://t.co/yfKmAhLC52
#Cycladic #forgeries #looting

[ARCA @ARCA_artcrime]

61 years ago today and Italy is still waiting.

https://t.co/LREa8vNEmR

[David Gill @davidwjgill]

My review of the Stern collection of Cycladicising objects has appeared in BMCR #cycladic https://t.co/nGnmohyerJ

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

Tate Britain to return painting looted by Nazis ⁦@ARCA_artcrime⁩ #duediligence #authenticateddocumentation https://t.co/LSjxmE4hNQ

[David Gill @davidwjgill]

Glad to see my new book Artwashing the Past getting a feature @lootingmatters @stephaniemlee @ARCA_artcrime @ChasingAphrodit

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

@ChasingAphrodit Should we stop using provenance for archaeological material? Does an object have a recorded archaeological findspot? Does the object have a documented history since leaving the ground?

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

@ChasingAphrodit How did a university museum acquire this material? Consider the set of Etruscan architectural terracottas returned to Italy.

[David Gill @davidwjgill]

Learning and Knowledge Loss: Returning Antiquities from Fordham University to Italy | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/Ic6PkJdal7 @KentLawSchool

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

@ibheritage Truly lithic conclusions

[Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee]

the number of looted-and-repatriated antiquities is a crucial data point for understanding the scope of the trade — but @ChasingAphrodit is the first to actually tally them up in such a comprehensive way. @MuseumofLoot is a massive undertaking and an amazing research resource!

[ATHAR Project @ATHARProject]

NEW: Incredible and important project from @ChasingAphrodit that combines open source investigation and documented repatriation of trafficked antiquities.

Check out the thread below and make sure to follow @MuseumofLoot-explore the data to see this valuable new digital resource!

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

@ChasingAphrodit When did Cleveland know that the statue had come from an archaeological site in Cyrenaica? Did they raise the issue with authorities in Libya?

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

Objects removed from ⁦@britishmuseum⁩ under investigation ⁦@ChasingAphrodit⁩ https://t.co/6RcJoCQnL7

[Chasing Aphrodite @ChasingAphrodit]

The Economist: Meet the man causing cracks in the antiquities trade

"Matthew Bogdanos @ManhattanDA employs unorthodox tactics to repatriate stolen art and antiquities."

https://t.co/8RSZjs2Vv0

h/t @davidwjgill for the repatriation stats >

[Chapps @chapps]

Thousands of miles apart in the modern world - were they once part of the same grand villa in Stabiae 2,000 years ago? Left, a floating muse (Getty Villa, https://t.co/k1as1oOZb4.92 - no findspot); right, a floating figure with a torch, Villa San Marco, Stabiae (in situ).

📸 me

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

@ndhags another solution?

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

Two men charged over felling of Sycamore Gap tree #hadrianswall #heritagecrime https://t.co/ZbkPlSX6hI

[CARC @CARC_Oxford]

Join more than 70 Greek vase researchers who have already entered themselves on our pottery researchers register!

[lootingmatters @lootingmatters]

@ChasingAphrodit More accurately the Keros Haul

https://t.co/HtKDLqApzH

[Chasing Aphrodite @ChasingAphrodit]

And in 2008 Colin Renfrew noted Koutoulakis' role as the source of the notorious Keros Hoard of looted Cycladic material:

"Koutoulakis was a trafficker in illicit antiquities who inducted his clients to purchase tainted artifact."

https://t.co/D2jNGx35ON