Practice question · Multiple choice
Why do professional codes forbid archaeologists from appraising unprovenienced antiquities?
Hints
- What does the market most need from a scholar?
- The expertise itself is the service being sold.
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A. Expert authentication raises value and stimulates looting
Why
An expert opinion is the one thing the illicit market cannot manufacture, and the thing that converts a doubtful object into a priced one. Withholding it is the profession’s most direct lever against the trade.
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