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On Second Thought - Ancient Coin Collecting
Nov 10 at 2:02pm
After reading the latest Elkins and Barford blog posts, I was inclined to consider the source and ignore them. But, having slept on it, I have to ask myself WHY? Why should I have spent more than 40 years of my life learning about ancient coins, and the cultures that produced them, just to have some star-gazer with a fixation on academic supremacy characterize me personally as a rank amateur with nothing but $$$ for a motivation?
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Sour Grapes - Ancient Coin Collecting
Oct 15 at 7:07pm
My previous blog post heralded the appointment of Brent R. Benjamin to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) as a positive step in fulfilling the intent of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act. Specifically, that is to provide a balanced perspective when evaluating requests from other nations for the imposition of import restrictions on cultural property. The eleven presidential appointments to CPAC come from diverse segments of society that are mandated by law—so that the work of the committee will reflect the views and interests of society, not just of a favored special interest.
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CPAC Appointment is Positive News - Ancient Coin Collecting
Oct 1 at 11:11pm
The latest selection by President Bush to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee already has some in the archaeological community grumbling as they see Brent Benjamin’s appointment as “bad news”. That is hardly unexpected I suppose, considering that archaeologists have in effect had a lock on at least one of the museum community seats on the committee for some time.
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Infectuous News Coverage - Ancient Coin Collecting
Jul 9 at 6:06pm
Anyone who follows the media coverage of cultural property issues has hopefully been inoculated against IAB (infectuous archaeological bias). A prime example of how twisted the coverage can get is shared with us by Associated Press in a June 3o, 2008 article by Maamoun Youssef titled “Egypt retrieves ancient relief in London” (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080630/egypt_antiquities.html?.v=1). The sub title is “Egypt retrieves a 2,500-year-old stone relief from Bonhams auction house in London”, Here is Paragraph 1:
“CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Egypt retrieved a 2,500-year-old limestone relief from London after its sale was blocked by Bonhams auction house because it had been looted from a pharaoh’s tomb, Egypt’s antiquities authority said Monday. A team of Egyptian archaeologists traveled to Britain to retrieve the artifact, which bears hieroglyphic text engraved in six rows and a cartouche of an ancient Egyptian queen, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement.”
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