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Take the so-called Berlin painter. Only 17% of the corpus comes from relatively secure archaeological contexts. It is worth reflecting on the scale of lost knowledge.
Archaeological contexts help us to interpret and date the objects. 'Ungrounded' pots (to use @lizmarlowe.bsky.social phrase) have lost part of the information that they could have conveyed.
Is it appropriate for figures carved in the southern Aegean in the third millennium BCE? Some of the Cycladic 'sculptors' are insecure as they do not contain any figures from a secure archaeological context.
It would have been helpful if the curatorial team had taken the issue of authenticity more seriously. If the figures are modern there is no contribution to our knowledge of the past.
Renfrew's classification is rooted in the archaeological record of the Cyclades unlike the attributions to anonymous "sculptors"
Association with Becchina overlooked at the Cycladic conference @metmuseum.org discussing the Stern collection of Cycladicising material #provenance
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11 species in the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch
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Roman villa identified at Margam @swanseauni.bsky.social #archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This has implications for other collections:
collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Well, well, well. While I've been off trying to fight the advance of authoritarianism, there's been a development in this complex story.
VMFA nobly "does the right thing," US authorities celebrate the step, but no one realizes that these aren't what they seem...
cc @davidwjgill.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @hedgehogpress.co.uk for sending advance copies of my POLAR CORONA, my #poetry pamphlet. The 🐧 popped out of the package about an hour ago.
www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/2025/12/06/p...
PRE-ORDERS OPEN: “Polar Corona” – Caroline Gill
I am so verily chuffed to say that Pre-orders are NOW OPEN, which means that Caroline Gill's gorgeous wee collection, Polar Corona can be Signed and yours in time for Christmas if you get in touch with Caroline today 🙂 Here is all that you need to…
More thoughts on the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art on loan to @metmuseum.org #Cycladic
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-a...
Why has an Attic bf cup fragment been returned to Italy when it was known in 1957? Is Italy changing its approach to cultural property? #Hecht lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/hech...
What name would you have suggested? #mammoth museum.wales/news/1423/To...
Bronze Age objects stolen from St Fagans #Cymru #culturalproperty
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A crown of sonnets
A crown of sonnets from @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social to be published by @hedgehogpress.co.uk
Analysis of key collections of Cycladic figures including @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Fitzwilliam @metmuseum.org @gettymuseum.bsky.social as well as the Stern collection
Tsirogiannis, C., D. W. J. Gill, and C. Chippindale. "A Corrupt Cycladic Corpus of Marble Figures."
New study on Cycladic figures now available:
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.
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Report and webinar on the importance of heritage as part of the visitor economy
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Theft from St Fagans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#culturalheritage #heritagecrime
They agreed to loan the material in exchange for title to the objects and future research and exhibits. The agreement, approved over objections by the archaeological community, resolved what might have become a protracted dispute over the collection.
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In 2024 the Stern Collection of Cycladic Antiquities was placed on long-term loan with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as the result of a novel repatriation agreement with the Greek government.
New Case: The Leonard N. Stern Collection of Cycladic Antiquities, contributed by Prof. David Gill
The Stern Collection includes 161 Cycladic figurines and stone vessels dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 3200-2000 BCE). Stern assembled it between 1983 and 2020.
