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That’s me! Tune in on March 12th to hear about the trainee scribe at Mycenae who just can’t get the dative right!

Will US importers of antiquities from Mexico, like this "Jalisco"| figurine currently on sale in San Francisco also be paying a tariff? Or will they "somehow" be exempt to keep the stuff coming into Robber-state US in huge quantities?

The Unsettling Story of the Brothers Poem Papyrus. The only extant copy of #Sappho 10 might go lost forever...facesandvoices.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/the…

Incredibly thin stuff in The TLS review of Roberta Mazza’s Stolen Fragments. Obbink, if the allegations are true, betrayed every professional and ethical obligation imaginable — where does one find a gram, much less an ounce, of sympathy?

The conclusion misses the mark completely. No one is trying to apply modern standards to early C20 collecting. The envoi is aimed specifically at scholars who still publish unprovenanced and illegal papyri.

Don't forget to join us today for ARCA's 3rd 2025 Cafe Klatsch - Talking Provenance!

Four pages into Roberta Mazza Stolen Fragments and I’m already appalled and traumatised 📜

US v. Eldarir UPDATE: Defendant pled guilty in EDNY yesterday to 4 felony counts of smuggling hundreds of ancient artifacts. This rare federal prosecution of #AntiquitiesTrafficking is a positive step to combat serious transnational crime. Sentencing is June 12. #CulturalHeritage

Must Listen: Ben Lewis unravels the tangled story of a Christian billionaire family, stolen relics, fake treasures and the scholar turned sleuth who exposed the scandal of biblical proportions. Featuring Museum of the Bible Roberta Mazza and yours truly. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

New BBC Radio 4 podcast Intrigue: Word of God is just excellent. Two eps. in, with Candida Moss in ep. 1 and Roberta Mazza's story beginning in ep. 2. So good! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… BBC Sounds

If you're into early and late-antique Christian book culture, or books history in general, this online event with Willy Clarysse is for you. See you tomorrow!

bbc.com/news/articles/… Pretty big news, yes, but to clarify, this is NOT "the first pharaoh's tomb discovered in Egypt since Tutankhamun's." It is, though, the first such royal tomb to be discovered in the vicinity of the Valley of the Kings since Carter discovered Tut’s tomb.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Third ep of this great BBC Sounds show begins in NC and features Bart Ehrman, Roberta Mazza and Mike Holmes.

Learn about the Carabinieri Art Squad’s efforts to protect Italy’s #culturalheritage from illicit #trafficking and theft, as explored by Chiara Gallo. Read our full blog post for more: buff.ly/3EQwD0f #ArtProtection #ItalianArt

£6.99!!!! How am I supposed to live off that????

More Symes material to be returned to Greece manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-anno…

Case of the Day: In April 2022, the Manhattan DA seized a large bronze statue of emperor Lucius Verus from Shelby White's apartment; one of 89 total antiquities from 10 countries seized at once, with a total value of $69 million. (1/2)

Case of the Day: Looted in 1990 and offered at Christie's in 1999 (fetching USD 85,000), the Orpheus Mosaic was taken from Edessa (now Şanlıurfa), in southeast Türkiye. The looters documented the entire process photographically, a later 'gift' to Turkish prosecutors.

Bronze Age Corsican statue sold at auction in London is a ‘fake’, French cultural authorities claim theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/24/bro…

Now available OA on the FUP website: books.fupress.com/catalogue/lite… It contains new #Greek poetry and prose fragments, mostly from Oxford Bodleian Libraries (but with surprises from Florence, Genève, Cairo and New York too). Enjoy! #classics #papyrology