RegARTless and Alliance Française are hosting a workshop to strengthen cultural custodians’ skills in heritage preservation and inventory management, building on an @Aliph Foundation supported pilot now being scaled. Alliance Française Bamenda @Icomofficiel @Unesco553 #lootingmatters #culturetraffic

David Gill @lootingmatters has posted additional information about the female figure, which he links to a 1982 advert for Gianfranco Becchina's gallery Palladion Antike Kunst.

https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2024/09/attic-funerary-relief-returns-to-greece.html

Colorado’s Artemis Gallery recently offered a looted amphora identified in the Becchina archive by Christos Tsirogiannis, via ⁦@lootingmatters⁩ https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2021/06/an-amphora-attributed-to-manner-of.html?m=1

Folks @davidwjgill has been tracking returns from the Levy White collection and its catalog Glories of the Past @lootingmatters for *decades*.

He has forthcoming papers with all the gory details, including the trafficking networks behind each piece.

Given him a follow!

Flashback: David Gill @lootingmatters and I identified Martin Lerner’s role in several of these Latchford objects at the Met way back in December 2012 https://chasingaphrodite.com/?s=Lerner&submit=Search

Wow: Collector Shelby White appears to have returned an important bronze sculpture of Lucius Verus, one of a series of statues that originated in the sebasteion at Bubon in Turkey, per ⁦⁦@lootingmatters⁩
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David Gill @lootingmatters has been tracking returns from the Levy White collection from years.

His latest accounting in the Spring 2023 Journal of Art Crime finds 31 objects from the Met's Glories of the Past exhibition have now been repatriated.

Details of these repatriations are contained in public records I've obtained from the ATU.

Here is a list of objects seized from @Princeton as part of an investigation of antiquities trafficking by Edoardo Almagià

Cc: @lootingmatters @RachelAxon @ElizMarlowe @princetonian

Here is a complete list of the 19 objects returned to Italy this week. @davidwjgill @lootingmatters no doubt has further thoughts on their origins and pathways.

David Gill @lootingmatters identified some of these last April here: https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2023/04/developments-at-princeton.html