失窃的碎片：黑市、恶意和古艺术品非法交易

Roberta Mazza | 2024 | ISBN: 1503632504 | English | 272 pages | ePUB | 1 MB

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact―a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold.

The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities.

Mazza's investigation forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny?

2012年，霍比奥洛夫连锁手工艺店的亿万富翁兼总裁史蒂文·格林宣布购入了一件珍贵文物——一块刚被发现的纸莎草卷片，上面刻有保罗写给罗马书的部分文字，并记录了它的出处为公元二世纪。知名学者罗贝塔·马扎震惊了。这块碎片是何时被发现的？为什么格林能拥有如此罕见的物品呢？马扎花了接下来十年的时间才揭开了真相：这块碎片来自牛津大学保管的一份著名收藏中，而它的真正主人对此一无所知。 除了《罗马书》之外，格林收藏中的其它非凡之物也引起了人们的注意。他们很快宣布从新约福音书和萨福著作中回收了新的碎片。马扎确认这些稀世珍宝的来源之路的过程揭示了一个复杂的全球网络，这个网络将包括格林的圣经博物馆、世界知名拍卖行如苏富比和佳士得等在内的大交易，以及耶路撒冷和伊斯坦布尔的古董店，还有在易趣网上做古董生意的人，这些人都直接或间接地进入了世界顶尖博物馆和大学的收藏中。 马扎的调查促使我们思考当那些宣称要保护我们的古代遗产的人却以破坏的方式行事时会发生什么。《偷窃碎片》一书揭示了最近的行为并非孤立事件，而是长期以来殖民主义实践的结果，也是世代学者因从他们声称希望保存的地方提取文化财富而获利的结果。保护与剥削、学术研究和盗窃之间的界限在哪里？

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