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The Great American Plunder of Persia's Antiquities 1925–1941, Mohammad Gholi Majd, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2003, ISBN 0-7618-2559-2, 274 pp.

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The Great American Plunder of Persia's Antiquities 1925–1941, Mohammad Gholi Majd, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2003, ISBN 0-7618-2559-2, 274 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Kamyar Abdi
Kamyar Abdi*
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Dartmouth College
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Iranian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Ethnographic Fieldwork in Iran , December 2004 , pp. 737 - 742
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Copyright © 2004 The International Society for Iranian Studies

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5 This is such an established fact that there is even a section in Pope's biography on his dealings in antiquities market: Gluck, J. and Silver, N., eds. Surveyors of Persian Art: A Documentary Biography of Arthur Upham Pope & Phyllis Ackerman (Ashiya, Japan, 1996): 151–70Google Scholar. See also: Muscarella, O. W., “Pope and the Bitter Fanatic,” in The Iranian World: Studies in Honor of E. O. Negahban, ed. Alizadeh, A., Majidzadeh, Y., and Shahmirzadi, S. M. (Tehran: Iran University Press, 1999): 5–12Google Scholar.

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