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Antiquities in the market-place: placing a price on documentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter Cannon-Brookes*
Affiliation:
Museum Management & Curatorship, Thrupp House, Abingdon OX14 3NE, England

Extract

To those of us who wish there was no commercial trade in antiquities, colleagues — and those themselves active in the market — say there always has been one and always will be. Since concern largely arises from destruction of context and loss of information, may there be a way forward that both permits the trade and preserves the context?

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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