Ashmolean Museum Spreading Mental Fluff, Failing to Address the Main Question

Another British Museum is acting as a gatekeeper, but merely using objects in its stores for facile and demeaning guessing games:

Ashmolean Museum@AshmoleanMuseum It's MYSTERY OBJECT TIME! [emoticon] What do you think this could be? Wrong answers encouraged.

Oh how utterly droll, eh? Note that they do not give any indication of dimensions (no scale in photo) or material. This was followed by people making fatuous remarks, each of which the Ashmolean staff answered individually - having obviously a lot of free time at the moment. That is, apart from one:

Paul Barford@PortantIssues·11 g. W odpowiedzi do @AshmoleanMuseum 
Jade ear ornament that you date no closer than 7 centuries, date of context lost on market. Bought (from whom?) in 1996, no provenance or collecting history on Museum website, no mention of documentation of legal export. Why are you doing this? Why is this in a UK museum at all? [followed by link 'Viet Nam News: Return looted artworks to the Vietnamese people']

It seems to me with all the public debate (in the UK too) about repatriation of unethically-appropriated cultural property, there were more profitable lines of discussion with members of the British public that one could have used this object to initiate than making silly suggestions.* Note that only one of these comments included the idea that the museum in a far-off land should not be hanging on to something like this (probably looted from a grave) in order that their nationals can entertain themselves by making fun of it. Dumbdown culture at its very worst. And what valuable mind-expanding information did the museum impart at the end" 

Ashmolean Museum@AshmoleanMuseum·30 paźW odpowiedzi do @AshmoleanMuseum
We had so many guesses that this was a coat hanger that we started to second guess ourselves. It is not, in fact, a coat hanger, but an ear ornament! Otherwise known as 'lingling-o', these were often made from jade or nephrite and might have indicated the wearer's social status.

This of course is why we get people voting for Brexit. Reassuringly equally-inane comment, followed by Inane ("we are with you") comment sketchy label (followed by an exclamation mark) then three sketchy "facts", omitting to say which country/culture produced it, where and when. Most importantly how it got out of the country of origin and why, how it entered the UK and how it ended up in their stupid guessing game. Totally meaningless fluff.

*"The lower half of a crown with a changeable top. It was marketed for the conqueror with many cities but precious little time", "It's either an oojemaflip or a watchimacallit. I suspect the former", "Clearly a coat hanger for an 80s power jacket", "Gecko Multi-Gym", "Portable scales?", "Hotel tie hanger?", "Coat hanger", "Blikopener", "Surgical retractor?", "Tooth extractor", "Rapelling device", "An early example of a comb for balding men", "It’s an early precursor to those Marks and Spencer’s trouser hangers with the two clips at either end which are always too stiff to open and are just plain useless...?", "It's to dry socks on your rotary drier", "Is it a bone age coat/loin cloth hanger?", "Clearly it's a 1980s bra-hanger for  Madonna", "Early Star Wars fighter prototypes were very unreliable and prone to frequent breakdowns, as evidenced by the large tow hook on this example", "Tickling stick?", "Medieval version of a swiss army knife", "Jewellery stand", "shoes hanger", "A ceremonial staff?", "An anchor", "A coat hook for bats", "Ancient Mesopotamian key fob", "Toast rack", "Clearly a Cro-Magnon cloak hanger; Please return it to the family; Thanks".

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