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Books: Scourge of the Forgery Culture Volume 54 Number 1, January/February 2001
by Ellen Herscher
The author of this reasoned polemic comes down hard on scholars and museums.
For nearly three decades, Oscar White Muscarella has roam ed the intersecting worlds of archaeology and museum s like a
biblical prophet--confronting powerful institutions and wealthy individuals with an uncompromising message and shaking the
comfortable complacency of art historical scholarship . Preaching the evils of the antiquities trade and the plunder that supplies
it, his ire has fallen most harshly on museum s and s cholars who often use looted artifacts in cons tructing their interpretations
of ancient cultures. Now, Muscarella pres ents his views with imp lacable passion in a new book, The Lie Becam e Great: The
Forgery of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.
The book's argum ent is that scholars of antiquity have long been
indiscrim inate in their treatment of objects that are presented as ancient, but
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reat:The Forgery ofAncient Near EasternCulturesOscar White Muscarella
Groningen: Styx, 2000.540 pages; $100.00.ISBN 90-5693-041-9
Styx PublicationsSales & DistributionP.O.Box 43NL-9400 AA
Ass en, The Netherlands.Phone 31 592 379 555Fax 31 592 379 551
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which appear with no concrete evidence to have been recovered from a
proper archaeolog ical excavation of a known s ite. Yet without such
documentation, the very authenticity of the object is in doubt and any
historical conclusi ons bas ed upon it rest on tenuous ground. According to
Muscarella, such m isinterpretations perm eate the cultural history of the
ancient Near East.
A staff mem ber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1964 and currently a
senior res earch fellow there, Muscarella attacks this kind of schola rship not
jus t for creating false knowledge, but because it serves to promote the illicit
trade in antiquities by authenticating and enhancing the aura o f orphaned
pieces. The system he des cribes is abetted by a mafia-like code of silence
within museums and academe that conceals information and impedes
exposure of the underlying process of plunder, forgery, and sm uggling.
The book has extensive endnotes and bibliography, but its content is far from the detached balance expected of academic
works, and the notes tend to contain more anecdotes than substantiating sources . The shorter first section, aptly titled
"Introduction and Polemic," provides the general framework, discus sing in m erciless detail the operations and
interdependence of the "Forgery Culture" and the "Collecting Culture." Muscarella describes with fervor how the s cholarshi p of
the ancient Near East has been corrupted by the infiltration of artifacts o f dubious authenticity and their use by generations of
scholars in recons tructing pas t cultures. His view is that only artifacts excavated from proper archaeol ogical excavations can
form the basis for understanding ancient cultures, and he blames a "close relationship between scholarship and commerce"
for the succes sful proliferation of forgeries. The evidence he presents indeed paints a s ordid picture of decades o f deeply
ingrained symbiosis , in most cases due more to scholarly gullibility than venality.
The second part, "Catalogue" (actually more of a list, since none of the objects are fully described ), includes entries for well
over 1,000 objects (mos t illustrated) that have been identified as ancien t Near Eastern artifacts bu t which Muscarella believes
to be forged or suspicious. His guiding prem ise is that every unexcavated object that appears should not automatically be
ass umed to be ancient, but rather must be challenged to prove that it is genuine. The material cited comes from m useums ,
private collections, dealers' catalogues and shops , and auction houses. (The "Concordance of Museum s and Collections" at
the end of the book provides a quick reference for this rogues' gallery of well known names : curiously, one of the mos t
prominent private collections, that of George Ortiz, is not mentioned, although some highly questionable pieces from his
collection have appeared in p rint.)
Various types of forgeries are dis cuss ed. The majority are of the usual type: totally modern objects intentionally made to
deceive a purchaser into thinking that they are from the ancient Near Eas t. Here Muscarella--by the shee r size of his listing,
which he claims is only the "tip of the proverbial iceberg"--is trying to refute claims of many dealers and museum pers onnel
that forgeries are a "mino r" problem wi thin the trade, and that the few that may appear can be easily detected. (Numerous
objects lis ted come from one dealer who is well known for ass erting his unerring ability to spot a fake.) Yet the Catalogue
makes it clear that, without appropriate scientific analysis (rarely done), the identification of forgeries is a highly sub jective
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process. ome mes uscare a prov es e a e exp ana ons or s conc us ons, ase on vara ons n s ye, a erra ons
in iconography, or anachronous manufacturing techniques, but often a piece is s imply dismi ss ed as a fake with comments
such as "disturb us," "seem queer," "a horror," or "as stupid as they come." He hims elf admits uncertainty about many of the
items, and in several cases has changed his mind since previous publications. Can all the objects in the Catalogue be proven
to be forgeries? No, but neither can they be proved to be genuine--this is Muscarella's essential point.
Perhaps even m ore devastating to our knowledge of the past is the widespread practice in the illicit trade of falsifying the
alleged findspot of genuine antiquities. Once certain cultures becom e popular with collectors, other plundered artifacts appear
on the m arket with the sam e attribution, although they may in fact come from a totally unknown area. A variation of forging
provenience is the dealer's claim that individual objects were found together as a "hoard" or "tomb group," thus supposedl y
increasing their his torical significance. In one example, Muscarella des cribes how ten silver vessels on sale in Munich were
used as evidence for an Urartian dynasty and linked (without basis ) to a site in Patmos. He ridicules the ignorant notion that
looters who des troy sites wou ld scrupulous ly maintain the integrity of groups as the objects pas s from their place of discovery
through the complexities of the antiquities m arket. Since provenience is the ess ential core of archaeology, the forgery of
provenience is particularly insidious , as it uses authentic artifacts to create a false picture of the ancient past.
Muscarella also details the com mon practice of adding modern em bellishment to genuine (but plain) artifacts in order to
increase their appea l to the serious co llector. He notes the m any instances when objects found in controlled excavations are
plain, but items on the m arket, said to be from the s ame culture, are highly decorated.
Muscarella demons trates the pervasive penchant of scholars to publish the anomalous pieces that appear without
documentation in mus eums and collections, and their naive credulity in accepting the provenience assertions ("said to be
from") of dealers. Rather than suspecting the authenticity of such unique objects, tortuous explanations are provided to give the
object an exciting "history" and (perhaps not fortuitously) increase i ts value. As a result, much damage has been done . Entire
"cultures" (such as "Amlas h") are known so lely from market material and have no archaeological bas is. No "Median" art has
ever been excavated yet many objects receive this attribution. Whole class es of artifacts, s uch as a group of "Mycenaean" gold
plates said to be from Phoenicia, have no certain authentic parallels . Spurious iconography forms the bas is for far-reaching
claims , such as the motifs on forged plaques which have been used to ass ert that the people of ancient Luristan practiced
Zoroastrianism . Alleged proveniences--s uch as Lu ristan bronzes said to have been found in Urartu, and Urartian art said to befrom the Casp ian area--have led to revolutionary interpretations of ancient trade. Two lapis -lazuli disks (claimed to be
Sumerian) have provided the basis for sweeping recons tructions o f ancient topography, heirloom traditions, recarving
methods , provincial artistic style, and mili tary troop movements. Muscarella urges a rchaeologis ts to ask thems elves why it is
that excavations fail to produce objects like the unprovenienced aberrations that they publish.
The author casts hims elf as the lone voice crying in a philistine wilderness populated by dupes and accomp lices of the
antiquities trade. He names a hos t of villains--mos t prominently Arthur Upham Pope and Roman Ghirshman , dealer-
"scholars " of the mid-twentieth century--but several more recent figures are als o denounced, including Thom as Hoving, Pierre
Amiet, Dietrich von Bothmer, and John Boardman. Numerous other miscreants appear sim ply as "a museum di rector," "a
scholar," "a m ajor university," or "a United States collector." Not surprisingly, publications that feature undocum entedantiquities (real or fake) or directly promote the trade, such as Biblical Archaeology Reviewand Minerva, receive harsh
criticism, but so do scholarly journals that accept articles discussing undocumented objects, and even such ephemera as the
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Home s ection of the New York Times and the Niem an-Marcus catalog because they glamorize collecting. Several of the
forgeries lis ted have appeared i n the pages of ARCHAEOLOGY.
No one escapes Muscarella's unrelenting scorn and he frequently ignores im portant contributions made by others. He also
seem s oblivious to the fact that changes have occurred within mus eums and the archaeological profess ion over the last
century. Although he repeats archaeologis t Ricardo J. Elia's now oft-quoted epigram, "collectors are the real looters"
(ARCHAEOLOGY, January/February 1993), he credits the wrong publication. His claim that there is "little information in print
about the role that museums play in the purchase of stolen and plundered art" ignores , for example, Karl E. Meyer's
fundamental work, The Plundered Past, major con tributions by Clemency Coggins (1997 Archaeological Institute of America
Gold Medal winner), recent investigative reports by Walter Robins on in The Boston Globe, and in depth s tudies by British
scholars Christopher Chippindale and David Gill that also address the problem of forgeries. From the museum world came
the ground-breaking Getty Kouros Co lloquium , now the definitive treatment of the problems inherent in undocumented
antiquities. (See "Tarnished Reputations," September/October 1998.)
Despite his condemna tion of scholarly use of undocum ented antiquities, Muscarella does not oppose the publication of such
pieces in what he considers the proper m anner (they cannot be given the same authority as thos e that were scientifically
excavated). This is a difficult and comp lex issue on which there is cons iderable difference of opinion among thoughtful and
well-intentioned scholars . Muscarella him self admits that he "wrestled" with the decision which was "reluctant and
heartbreaking." Nevertheless , he does not hesitate to deride those who have spent nearly as m uch time as has he reflecting
on the iss ue, and who have reached a different conclusion. While alluding to this reviewer (not by name) as "one of the few
scholars active in the good fight against plundering ," he proceeds to caricature and then mock my position. He als o castigates
the AIA for its policies on scholarly use of undocum ented artifacts, even though he played a major role in bringing about the
adoption of those policies . The prophet is not inclined toward nuance or com plexity, but retains his unsparing vision of black
and white.
Despite his rhetorical excess es, Muscarella reveals from an insider's perspective a reality of which the public has too long
been unaware. In one way or another, museum s a re supported by the public, yet many continue to operate in a veil of secrecy
that would be unthinkable in any other public institution. While some forgeries (when identified) may quietly be removed fromdisplay, aggressive efforts to scrutinize questionable objects a re rare, and as Muscarella s hows, even known fakes are
som etimes left on view for "political" reasons . And with recent increased attention to the des truction of archaeological sites
from looting, museum s that still acquire undocumen ted antiquities have even less incentive to change mis leading labels that
have long accompanied pieces from illicit sources.
Years ago, Oscar White Muscarella was the first to raise within the archaeological p rofession the issue of forged provenience
and its effect on the discipline. His call to ethical standards and awareness of the mechanisms o f the illicit antiquities trade
raised the consciousnes s of a younger generation of archaeologis ts and moved organizations such as the AIA and the
International Council of Museums toward the establishment of new standards . Many problems rem ain, and change comes
slowly. Yet Muscarella may have failed to notice how much o f an impact he has a lready had.
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