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Bookmark or Share- Smarthistory – Provenance and the Antiquities MarketProvenance considerations connected to the trade of classical material started surfacing in 1998 (note the small spike in graph 1) when journalist Peter Watson exposed internal practices at Sotheby’s designed to back the trade of illegally exported antiquities. The auction house closed down its London branch as a result, and decided to only ...
- Classical antiquity - WikipediaHistory. Archaic period (c. 8th to c. 6th centuries BC) Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Assyrians. Greece. Greek colonies. Iron Age Italy. Roman kingdom. Classical Greece (5th to 4th centuries BC) Hellenistic period (323–146 BC) Roman Republic (5th to 1st centuries BC) Roman Empire (1st century BC to 5th century AD)
- ANTIQUITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionaryan object that was created a very long time ago: Under Greek law, all antiquities that are discovered in Greece belong to the government. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Ancient history: before 500 AD. agora. ancients. archaic. Bactrian. charioteer. Delphic. dolmen. Euphrates. gladiator. glyph. mummify. nones. palaeo- paleographical.
- Archaeology - National Geographic SocietyArchaeology is the study of the human past using material remains. These remains can be any objects that people created, modified, or used. Portable remains are usually called artifacts. Artifacts include tools, clothing, and decorations. Non-portable remains, such as pyramids or post-holes, are called features.
- Antiquities | The J. Paul Getty MuseumABOUT THE COLLECTION. J. Paul Getty started acquiring antiquities in Rome in 1939 and subsequently built an important collection concentrating on Greek and Roman marble statues and reliefs, bronze statuettes, and mosaics.
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