Cultural Property Observer

A Web Log Championing the Longstanding Interests of Collectors in the Preservation, Study, Display and Enjoyment of Cultural Artifacts Against an "Archaeology Over All" Perspective

Friday, November 30, 2012

Roads of Arabia at the Sackler

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Today, Saudi Arabia is known as the religious center for the world's Muslims and the World's major supplier of petroleum products. ...

Thursday, November 29, 2012

PAS Harnesses the Power of the Public

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The Art Newspaper has written favorably about the PAS and its efforts to record evidence of the past in Britain and Wales. Of course, the...

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Cultural Heritage Center Website Updated

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The Cultural Heritage Center's website has been spiffed up with pictures, including one of Hillary Clinton gazing at a Greek statute. ...

Monday, November 26, 2012

No Sense of Humor or Balance, Just Useful Cover?

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I guess on reflection it's not all that surprising that the archaeological blogosphere, what with its archaeology over all fanaticism, l...

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Re-Repatriation

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Germany has agreed to repatriate a winged seahorse brooch back to Turkey. The brooch is the most significant piece from the so-called Lyi...

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Thanksgiving: Khouli Sentenced to Home Detention

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has sentenced Mousa ("Morris") Khouli to six months of home detention...

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Repatriation as a Diplomatic Tool?

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Pity poor old U.S News and World Report. It used to be one of the three major news weekly magazines. Now, it's reduced to a web-only pub...

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Cultural Property Observer: Washington, DC, United States; Peter Tompa has collected ancient coins for almost 50 years. He has written and lectured about cultural property issues for a decade. He is a contributor to a chapter on numismatics in K. Fitz Gibbon ed., "Who Owns the Past?" (Rutgers 2005). He has lobbied members of the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch in an effort to ensure that the small businesses of the numismatic trade receive fair treatment from federal regulators. He currently serves as a board member of the Cultural Policy Research Institute and the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. He also has been a co-chair of the American Bar Association's Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee. His advocacy has received notice in the media, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Art Newspaper and the Voice of America. He hopes his views as a collector and lawyer will provide a counterpoint to the "archaeology over all" perspective found in most blogs about cultural property issues. This Web page is a public resource for general information and opinion about cultural property issues, and is not intended to be a source for legal advice. Opinions expressed here are the author's own.

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