Syria
Related Encyclopedia Entries

Stele of Adad-nerari III
Syrian stele offered for sale in Christie’s and Bonhams auction houses.
Related Publications

Brodie, Neil (2023) ‘Standing Caliph’ coins from Syria: probably looted and on the market. In Irving Finkel, J.A. Fraser and St John Simpson (eds), ‘To Aleppo Gone …’ Essays in Honour of Jonathan N. Tubb. Oxford: Archaeopress, 175-180.

Brodie, Neil (2022) The looting and trafficking of Syrian antiquities since 2011. In Layla Hashemi and Louise Shelley (eds), Antiquities Smuggling: In the Real and the Virtual World. London: Routledge, 21-58.

Sabrine, Isber, Ristam Abdo and Neil Brodie (2022) Some new evidence documenting the involvement of Da’esh in Syria with the illicit trade in antiquities. Journal of East Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage 10(2): 115-136.

Brodie, Neil (2021) Die Stele von Tell Sheikh Hamad. In Birthe Hemeier and Isber Sabrine (eds), Kulturraub – Fallbeispiele aus Syrien, Irak, Jemen, Ägypten und Libyen. Berlin: Museum für Islamische Kunst/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 101-106.

Brodie, N. (2019), ‘The “art world” of the auction houses: The role of professional experts’, Arts 8(2): 56.

Brodie, N. and I. Sabrine (2018), ‘The Illegal Excavation and Trade of Syrian Cultural Objects: A View from the Ground’, Journal of Field Archaeology 43(1): 74–84.

Brodie, N. and Manivet, P. (2017), “Cylinder Seal Sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s (1985–2013)”, Journal of Art Crime: 3–16.

Brodie, N. (2016), ‘Scholarly Engagement with Collections of Unprovenanced Ancient Texts’, in Almqvist, K. and L. Belfrage (eds), Cultural Heritage at Risk (Stockholm: Ax:son Johnson Foundation), 123–142.
