TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marlowe,Elizabeth
TI  - Shaky ground: context, connoisseurship and the history of Roman art 
T2  - Debates in archaeology
SN  - 9780715640647 (hbk.)
AV  - N5760 .M37 2013
U1  - 709.37 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Art, Roman
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Rome
KW  - Art
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-156) and index; Introduction : contradictions -- Histories modern and ancient -- Indifference to context -- Lessons learned and not learned -- Connoisseurship and class -- Red herrings -- Conclusions : best practices
N2  - "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
ER  -