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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 494665, member: 5833&quot;]How much they are worth to whom, under what terms of sale?&nbsp; Art &amp; antiquities sold on the black market do not fetch anywhere near as much as good pieces sold openly &amp; legally.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If mere possession of such things is a capital offense, it does not seem there would be any such thing as official approval for export.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If this means &#039;worth the hassle of smuggling out&#039;, you are certainly not going to get an answer to that question here.</p><p><br /></p><p>One way to have any idea at all of value is to look at the results of auctions for comparable items, if you can find them.&nbsp; You will need to find the right search term for the region/time period, e.g., Achaemenid, Parthian, Seleucid, etc., and the type of vessel.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one for an Achaemenid rhyton sold a year ago.&nbsp; You will see it did not reach the estimate at all &amp; had only one bidder:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/59846794_achaemenid-pottery-antelope-rhyton" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/59846794_achaemenid-pottery-antelope-rhyton" rel="nofollow">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/59846794_achaemenid-pottery-antelope-rhyton</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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