Fund division
A division of the finds is a regulation according to which half of the archaeological finds go to the country that financed and organized the excavation , the other half remains in the country in which the excavation took place.
Examples
- In 1924, the division of finds was laid down in Iraq's Ancient Law: All foreign expeditions had to leave half of the excavation finds to the newly founded Iraq Museum in Baghdad , as well as all works of art that were regarded as unique.
- Henri Seyrig (1895–1973) drafted the Antiquities Act enacted by the High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon on November 7, 1933, as well as its implementing provisions (Réglement sur les Antiquités) and created rules for the division of the finds.
- The Uruk-Warka Collection in Heidelberg consists primarily of found objects that came to the Oriental Institute of Heidelberg University through divisions in the 1950s and 1960s.
- The gate lions from Sam'al in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin were found during excavations by the Orient Committee in 1890/91 and were brought to Berlin as part of the then common division of finds, as was the bust of Nefertiti .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ IRAQ - A tour through human history. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 26, 2003 on PatrimonioSOS.it.