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March 27

Petrie's statement 1920

What previously published item did Flinders Petrie declare a fake in "1920, pl. XXI, 46 K"? According to this bibliography https://www.jstor.org/stable/543795?read-now=1&seq=22#page_scan_tab_contents, that year we have "Le Musee de Louvre pendant la guerre", "Italy's protection of Art Treasures and monuments during the War," "Estudio de Arquelogia Cartaginesa. La Necropoli de Ibiza", "A brief Chronology of the Muhammedan Monuments of Egypt to AD 1517", "The Museum" with Margaret Talbot Jackson, The Evolution of the Dragon, with G Elliot Smith. I know there's also "Excavations at Lahun" in Ancient Egypt III in 1920, which has no plate XXI or any plate numbers. Temerarius (talk) 15:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I only found that it must have been predynastic decorated ware (D-Ware).

“As decorated jars are well-appreciated objects on the antiquities market, it does not come as a surprise that they have regularly been falsified. Petrie (1929: pl. XXI, 46 K) noted that the decoration was faked on one of the vessels he had published (which however did not prevent the jar from showing up as an example of D-ware in recent publications, cf. el-Yakhi 1981: 78, fig. A 8). As decorated jars with human representation were particularly sought after they were of course even more likely to be faked.”

Stan Hendrickx, “Checklist of predynastic ‘Decorated’ pottery with human figures”, Cahiers Caribéens d’Egyptologie, 2002

---Sluzzelin talk 15:44, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prince de Lambesc (1751-1825)

Initiated via block evasion.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

He was a distant cousin of Queen Marie Antoinette. Are there any source about his reation for the deaths of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? And about if he had supported their cause after left France in 1789? -- Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.115.160 (talk) 23:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Link: Charles Eugene, Prince of Lambesc. As I said before, the fact that he was a descendant of the House of Guise may have helped determine his royalism... AnonMoos (talk) 04:24, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]