Sentence examples for ancient provenance from inspiring English sources
The "right thing" has ancient provenance and contemporary authority.
Simply because of their ancient provenance, archaeological remains typically display signs of damage.
Despite their ancient provenance (and many legal challenges) the FCC's media rules remained unreformed until Mr Powell took an interest.
He drove her all the wind-blasted way out to the bird sanctuary at Herma Ness and helped her set up her equipment in an abandoned crofter's cottage of such ancient provenance that not even Duncan Stout could say who the landlord might once have been.
He knew that she was of ancient provenance only because, earlier that year, two archeologists working in the Périgord had presented the first conclusive evidence that the remains and artifacts that their sites had recently yielded were prehistoric, rather than Celtic — the common assumption.
And it would seem that certain words of ancient provenance — like "good," "evil," "free will," even "original sin" — do not have to be superseded by pseudo-scientific terminology just because they happen to derive from a God-centered approach to man.
Following Ms. True's indictment, many museums adopted policies that banned the purchase of ancient artifacts whose provenance was not clear.
Until the Germans occupied the free zone, Malraux's American publisher was able to send him dollars, and Gaston Gallimard took charge of liquidating pieces from Malraux's art collection — some ancient, some contemporary, provenance unspecified.
Strontium, neodymium and oxygen isotopes have been used to provenance ancient glass, for instance in the Mediterranean area [68 74].
In order to exactly locate the provenance of ancient architectonical colored glazes, 196 pieces of ancient colored glaze bodies and porcelain bodies fired in Xiyue Temple and Lidipo kiln are analyzed by INAA.
Their cases, closely watched in the art world, led many museums to institute policies preventing the purchase of ancient artworks with murky provenance.
