Identifier: archologyfalse00munr (find matches)
Title: Archæology and false antiquities
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Munro, Robert, 1835-1920
Subjects: Archaeology Forgery of antiquities
Publisher: Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ribes the circumstances :— La crise decisive fut le resultat dune fumisteire. Unartiste montmartrois, M. Mayence dit Elina, sous le coupde poursuites pour avoir falsifid des dessins de Pille, d^clara aujuge dinstruction Boucart quil etait Iauteur de la Couronne deSeiniramis (17th March, 1903). Puis il rectifia ; il sagissait dela tiare de Saitapharnes, Imm^diatement, le public assi^geala vitrine du Louvre et la pol^mique commenca. Consulte pardes journalistes, je declarai quElina avait un rival Razoumow-sky (sic)^ qui avait ete d6sign6, des 1896, comme Iauteur dela tiare, mais que les efforts faits pour le retrouver, etaientrestt^s sans resultats. Li dessus, un orfevre russe dOdessa,6tabli i Paris depuis 1897, et une dame doriginie danoise,ecrivirent au Matin (23 Mars) que Rouchoumowsky, leuretait bien connu, que cetait un ciseleur de grand talent et quiletait bien Iauteur de la tiare. ^ Meantime a correspondent of the Figaro telegraphed ^ LAnthropologie, t. xiv. p. 247. PLATE XVIII
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THE TIARA OF SAITAPHARNES RECENTLY PROVED TO BE A FORGERY FROM ILLUSTRATIOK IN ACADEMIE DBS lySCBIPTIOXS ET BELLES-LETTRES. iSq6 GENERAL AND CONCLUDING REMARKS 279 from Odessa that Rouchoumowsky was ready to come toParis for 1200 francs, and supply proof positive thathe had actually manufactured the tiara. The result ofthe official investigation which ensued on his arrivalin Paris has not, however, completely solved the mystery.There is no longer any doubt that the tiara to the extentof three-fourths was the actual work of this artist ; but asto the rest, as well as certain ornamental details, they weresupplied to him as mutilated fragments, said to beancient, by one Hochmann, a grain merchant, from Otch-akoff, near Odessa, for whom he had executed the work.It is reported that behind all there is a learned archaeolo-gist who manufactured the supposed ancient fragments,but who will not come on the scene till 1905, when thetime for taking legal action in cases of forgery expires. Civili

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