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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2785023, member: 76086&quot;]Well, for anyone who is going to collect antiquities it needs to be understood that the vast majority of items on the market were originally grave goods.&nbsp; Most pottery vessels (from the humble Syro-Palestinian juglet to the nicest Gnathian painted piece) were originally in a grave.&nbsp; Its why they survived to this day.&nbsp; But, it does creep me out as well on occasion.&nbsp; As a dealer I understand a lot of looting goes on.&nbsp; Ultimately we can never know where many items come from.&nbsp; I for one do not buy eastern Roman finger rings, nor votive lead mirrors.&nbsp; They are all obviously looted.&nbsp; I wont have any part in that.&nbsp; On the other hand, there are plenty of things which are random finds, unassociated with any issues.&nbsp; Fibulae (or brooches for our English cousins) are mostly random finds.&nbsp; They survive in mass numbers because they broke and were tossed aside as trash.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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