Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Zahi Hawass on CNN

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

CNN's Ben Wedeman on Head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass. A staff, it is said of 30 000 people. Features the Hat.

Photo from Hawass's website.

Paul Barford said...: I see now that before me Nathan Elkins had posted on his blog a related video http://coinarchaeology.blogspot.com/2008/12/zahi-hawass-digging-or-history.html. Sorry Nathan for not noticing it earlier. Interesting stuff though.; 10 December 2008 at 23:27
Nathan Elkins said...: Not a problem at all. Sharing is what blogs are for.

Best,
Nathan; 12 December 2008 at 01:45

"coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
"heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
"tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
MENA - Middle East and North Africa
PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property