Maybe it's 'looting.' Personally, I don't like that term; it doesn't feel right for abandoned 'stuff' (philosophically, dead 'people' aren't (viz., corpses are not 'people'); 'they' cannot own 'property') -- rival claims should default to actual heir designees & living finders, not lineage chains of dead (& purported) 'owners'. I realize mine is an extreme minority opinion: basically, 'finders, keepers.' So I have no problem w/ poor goatherders selling what's dug up on their lands. And I also have no problem w/ a free market in Antiquities. Libertarian!
In 2018, Vanity Fair Spain published a feature detailing how Bagot Peix was under police scrutiny for allegedly acquiring artifacts looted from Libya in a scheme that financially benefited the Islamic State.
As I suspected, the Egyptian piece was 'looted' from Cyrene; I suspect it's from the sarcophagus of a dead Jewess. The condition is extraordinary tho ... hmmm. Fake?
