Most of the looting, authorities now say, took place in storage areas where more than 100,000 more commonplace objects, of importance principally to scholars, were kept.
There's fishing gear, shattered fishing floats, tangles of nets, but if you stop and stoop down and look closely you can pick out more commonplace objects – detergent bottles, Nestlé lids, golf balls.
Mr. Curtis said it appeared that a vast majority of the looting at the National Museum had not taken place in its display halls but in its basement storage rooms, where more commonplace objects were kept.
In his comments earlier this week in New York, Mr. Curtis, the British Museum official, who is the curator of its Near East collection, said it appeared that the vast majority of the looting at the National Museum in Baghdad had not taken place in its display halls but rather in its basement storage rooms, where more commonplace objects were kept.
Hilde Hein pursues this point by suggesting that museums might divert traditional interest in "masterworks" and aim at understanding more commonplace objects and their meanings, thus inverting the usual hierarchy of values manifest in museum and gallery displays (Hein 2010).
Though retail researchers and consultants say Thanksgiving openings will probably become more commonplace, some shoppers objected to them.
More prosaic objects changed elite fashion.
Problems arise, however, when objects that are rare are deemed more valuable than commonplace objects, when "big" is deemed superior to "small," or in general terms when distinctions become a basis for value discrimination.
In order for 3D scanning to become more commonplace, methods are needed for quickly and robustly acquiring full geometric models of complex objects.
Initially iron was probably used mainly for small and valuable objects such as razors, needles, and knives; later, as the smelting technique became more commonplace, iron came to be used for cutlasses, axes, and, eventually, hoes, which replaced the old wooden digging sticks.
