The Antiquities Market

Market AlertEditorial note. We regularly receive notices of thefts of antiquities from INTERPOL, the International Foundation for Art Research, and the Art Dealers Association of America, as well as from individuals. In keeping with the principles and policies of the Journal of Field Archaeology and the Association for Field Archaeology, we publish announcements of thefts from “owners” who have not violated the principles of the UNESCO Convention in acquiring those objects. Our primary concern is for the recovery of objects stolen from excavation collections and having a documented archaeological context. Occasionally, as in the reports of thefts from the Wadsworth Athenaeum or Tulane University in this issue, we publish news of thefts from institutions that can document through their records and/or by publication citations that the stolen objects were acquired before the formulation of the UNESCO Convention in 1970. Such publication in the JFA is in no way to be construed as an authentication of the objects

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