Prompted by the remarks he made at a numismatic conference in New York (which I also discussed here), David Gill took a look at Harlan Berk’s website and found a series of joining fragments of an apparently unrecorded and thus potentially “freshly-surfaced” (sic) fragmentary Attic red-figured cup (Item #aq13622) being sold there for US$12500. He discusses them in a post on Looting Matters ( "I am angry at the archaeologists and I want to beat them" ). Gill notes:
it is claimed that this newly surfaced cup is "an important piece". However its findspot is apparently unknown and unrecorded. This is a pity as it could have told us something of the distribution of this type of pottery in the late Archaic period.I think knowing where it came from might also tell us a little more about the supply of material to this corner of the US antiquities market. Where are the rest of the pieces?
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Vignette - Vesta the Discerning Collector: "No, I will not touch it until you tell me where it really came from Mr Berk" (Britannica).
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