Cover of Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (Debates in Archaeology)

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Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art (Debates in Archaeology)

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Published
2013
  • Art
  • Roman Art
  • Collectors and collecting
  • History
  • Archaeology
  • Art, roman
  • Antiquities

"Argues that the current legal and ethical debates over looting, ownership and cultural property have distracted us from the epistemological problems inherent in all (ostensibly) ancient artworks lacking a known findspot, problems that should be of great concern to those who seek to understand the past through its material remains."--Publishers website