Looks like Eisenbrauns/Penn State University Press have just published a large set of cuneiform tablets almost certainly looted and smuggled out of wartime Iraq.
eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/9…
eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/9…
For anyone unfamiliar with the problems with Irisagrig tablets and interested in learning more, you might start with this thread:
A familiar justification from the book description: otherwise heritage might have been lost!
"Preserves and makes available to the scholarly community" a set of tablets that couldn't be cleaned or photographed. Hmmm . . .
(I'm also very interested in how this issue is discussed in the book.)
(I'm also very interested in how this issue is discussed in the book.)
Interesting contrast with this article, published today, on the Penn Museum's Ur tablets:
Those tablets were legally excavated and removed to the U.S., but even so they're being returned to Iraq.
atlasobscura.com/articles/ur-cu…
Those tablets were legally excavated and removed to the U.S., but even so they're being returned to Iraq.
atlasobscura.com/articles/ur-cu…
