David Gill

We have been averaging c. 5 species - though one day last week was 10.

Just observed my 2500th butterfly this year with notable sightings of common blues today. 7 species with more than 100. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Thank you.

Just passed my 2000th observation this year @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social

Phenomenal review essay on the new Stern Collection at the Met by @davidwjgill.bsky.social. An encapsulation of the ethical issues (and their ramifications) in antiquities collecting, and how they impact academics, museums, and the wider public bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07...
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Thank you.

Bubon fans: the Babesch organization kindly published the text of the talk I gave last month in Leiden about the looting and circulation of the statues, in which I also imagined how they might have been arranged and rearranged on the pedestals in antiquity. www.babesch.org/byvanck-lect...

Over 600 butterfly observations this year with 16 species @savebutterflies.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

The Met returns three antiquities to Iraq Source: Manhattan DA New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned three antiquities to Iraq ( Manhattan DA Press Release ). The three ...

Three antiquities handled by Robin Symes - as well as by Elie Borowski and Nikolas Koutoulakis - returned from @metmuseum.org through @manhattanda.bsky.social
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Replica mural in Crete’s Palace of Knossos collapses | eKathimerini.com A replica of the famed Dolphin Mural at Crete’s Palace of Knossos collapsed on Friday, sparking concerns about the maintenance of the archaeological site.

Piet de Jong and Knossos www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1269...

Cultural property essay by Christos Tsirogiannis bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.04...

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Sutton Hoo helmet may actually come from Denmark, archaeologist suggests A Danish metal detectorist's find raises questions about where the iconic helmet is from, experts say.

Sutton Hoo helmet may come from Denmark #archaeology #Suffolk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How two metal detectorists struck gold then cheated their way to prison How recklessness and greed led the finders of one of Britain's rarest treasure troves to jail.

The Leominster Hoard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aberdeen University to repatriate murdered Aboriginal man's remains The remains of the man killed in Tasmania have been held by the university since the 1850s.

Human remains to be returned to Tasmania from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Worcester Art Museum Returns Hecht-linked Pots to Italy Photo: Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum has returned two Attic pots to Italy; they are now back on loan to the museum (" Worces...

Two more Athenian pots go back to Italy - Borowski and Hecht links.
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/03/worc...

Gladiators of Britain Special Exhibitions FREE as part of Museum entry Book now “It’s gruesome and utterly fascinating.” – The Times “The exhibition will breathe new life into our understanding of ancient British recreatio...

Gladiators of Britain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social with loans from @colmuseums.bsky.social
www.dorsetmuseum.org/whats-on/gla...

Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment | Greek, Attic | Archaic | The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Found near the Acropolis” (Brummer Gallery stock card P1441, Brummer Gallery Records)<br/><br/> [Until 1925, with Theodoros A. Zoumboulakis (Zoumpoulakis), Athens and Paris]; [1925, acquired by Josep...

For the fragment in @metmuseum.org www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Another Zoumpoulakis fragment in @metmuseum.org linked to piece found in Athens

The Met’s antiquated views of antiquities need updating The new Greek and Roman curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum should rejuvenate its displays with honest, better stories

In this article from 2019, I reminded the Met that its bronze griffin head was stolen from the archaeological museum at Olympia. Their response (included at the end of the article) was simply to sniff that the head "has never been the object of a claim." www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/01/15/t...

Female statuette, early Spedos type Statuette of a woman; arms folded across body; knees slightly bent. Spinal column indicated by groove. Rows of red dots can be discerned on the forehead and cheeks of …

Another Zoumpoulakis Cycladic figure collections.mfa.org/objects/201/...

Η επιστροφή του γρύπα Από το Μet της Νέας Υόρκης – Νέα έκθεση το 2026 με ελληνικές αρχαιότητες.

More on the return to Greece www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5634...

Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Griffin to Greece In 1972 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a bronze griffin head that was "said to have been found in Olympia" (Bothmer), specifically ...

The Olympia griffin returned from @metmuseum.org raises issues about other items that followed the same route through the market
lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/02/metr...

The larger issue relates to authenticity of the Stern collection.

figure | British Museum Marble figure of a woman - Spedos type, with a swollen abdomen suggesting pregnancy.

And this one from the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

"The Bronze Head of a Griffin was a gift in 1972 from Walter Baker and has never been the subject of a dispute." @metmuseum.org @theartnewspaper.bsky.social