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“600-500 BC Etruscan” Ceramic Boar Vessel exposed as probable fake
- CRConrad 5y agoHeadline somewhat rearranged into more logical sentence order, as I had to shorten it from a full tweet anyway.
- teruakohatu 5y agoI am not sure it the tweet author is exposing it. The museum has long since acknowledged it is a possible fake and removed it from display.
- CRConrad 5y agoWell, he's giving it exposure... Yeah, he at least hints at something such towards the end of the thread -- but I had no idea about that from before, so he "exposed" the whole thing at least to me.
- bactrianCase 5y agoHow is this at all interesting? stuff like this happens all the time and is just normal archeology, downvoted for linking a meaningless tweet.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoSo much of Etruscan 'artifacts' look like a sham.
- wl 5y agoThe problem is that unless you have experience digging such artifacts out of the ground and an extensive familiarity with the provenanced material others have dug out of the ground, such impressions aren't worth much. In the context of looking at listings on Etsy and eBay to learn about looting of material culture, there's plenty of stuff I've thought was fake before an archeologist set me straight with dozens of links to similar material in museums. Likewise, there's plenty of stuff I thought was real that turned out to be an obvious fake to people who know better.
- Asraelite 5y agoWas any extra analysis done specifically because of the vessel's status as a meme?
- antognini 5y agoIncidentally a famous artifact called the Capitoline Wolf depicting Remus and Romulus nursing under a wolf was long thought to be an Etruscan artifact. A little while back I was reading a history of the arts published in the late 1990s that used it as an example of one of the high achievements of Etruscan art. It turns out, however, that radiocarbon dating done in the 2000s showed that it was actually a medieval work. Apparently there had been doubts about its origins for centuries, but they had mostly been ignored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf
- ARandomerDude 5y agoThanks for this comment, I had no idea! Interestingly enough, the Wiki article states there is good reason to think the wolf is Etruscan but Romulus and Remus are medieval. > However, a recent study by John Osborne at the British School at Rome concluded that the radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates were totally inconsistent. He pointed out that metal from which the wolf is made is of the Etruscan type using copper from Sardinia and that there is no sign of the adulteration common in mediaeval times, and that on the balance of probabilities, the wolf should be considered to be Etruscan.
- teruakohatu 5y agoInteresting. I looked into this and if it was a medival casting, it was probably a replacement for the original.