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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Mackay, post: 405724, member: 4589&quot;]No, all power to the carvers. I dont really know how else to put it other than in the post attempting to clarify my thoughts/feelings.</p><p>I suspect that souvenir objects undergo a degree of production simplification simply as a result of their intended use and further as demand increases.</p><p>Maximus,&nbsp; Russell Crowe&#039;s character in the film Gladiator, could have bought those little figurines he carried around from a street vendor or some small shop. Digging them up today wouldn&#039;t they be antiquities? But the really good stuff, the best representations of those same beings, would have been in the temples, as you say. Then Rome was sacked and looted and what remained un-destroyed of the good stuff began to move through various hands. We&#039;re lucky to have antiquities but at some point a lot of it was loot.</p><p>Are there not fine cultural objects being looted today</p><p>and collectors acquiring them?</p><p>I guess I&#039;m expressing (poorly) a wish that collectors be careful not to support present-day cultural looting, <i>not that I think anyone here does!!!</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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