In a joint statement, the Getty's director, Michael Brand, said the museum's scholarly research had shown that the artifacts' "proper home is in Italy".
In the latter case, which is a sort of middle way between the two other options, one commonly distinguishes between the proper function of an artifact as the one intended by its designer and the accidental function of the artifact as the one given to it by some user on private considerations.
But they could create partnerships with the states where we know these promising archaeological sites exist to sponsor excavations and to help provide proper scientific oversight when artifacts are unearthed.
To work around this difficulty, they suggest, we need a theory focused on "proper functions" for the artifacts in question.
Peru's patrimony law dates back to 1930, and Barchitta did not have proper title to the artifacts.
Therefore, it was necessary to identify a theoretical framework from which we could generate a proper procedure to create artifacts for this purpose, that is, such a procedure may be implemented by means of computational algorithms and has some degree of universality.
The quality of the images was excellent and showed proper views without any artifacts.
(A1) makes the concept of artifact (in the proper sense) equivalent to that of work (as a product as opposed to activity); for example, according to (A1), all works of art, including musical and literary works, should be called "artifacts" insofar as they have authors.
And if a teacher can't put the word in its proper context -- as an artifact of another time -- then he or she shouldn't teach it.
Mr. Small argued that the seller, an anthropologist, had described the artifacts as having proper permits, and as having been displayed at two museums before Mr. Small's acquisition.
