Sentence examples for uncertain antiquity from inspiring English sources

Two sets of doors in St. Mark's, Venice, of Greek workmanship and considerable but uncertain antiquity, are supposed by some to have been removed from St. Mark's at Alexandria.

By the time Huxley wrote, the Engis fossils had been certified as contemporaneous with the extinct Ice Age wooly mammoth and wooly rhinoceros by no less an authority than Darwin's close colleague the geologist Charles Lyell, who had also pronounced the Neanderthaler to be of "great but uncertain antiquity".

The lowest effective centre of power was the village commune (obshchina), an institution of uncertain origin but great antiquity, which had long had the power to redistribute land for the use of its members and to determine the crop cycle, but which now also became responsible for collecting taxes on behalf of the government.

"As long as there's a lucrative market for looted goods, for objects with uncertain provenance, there will be an illicit antiquities trade," he said.

The evolutionary origin and antiquity of the extant deep-sea fauna remains uncertain with the contemporary fauna appearing to comprise clades, which originated throughout the ˜541 million years (Myr) of the Phanerozoic (Jablonski et al., 1983; Jablonski & Bottjer, 1991).

The Byzantine arrangement of four authentic and four plagal ēchoi was probably inspired by an even earlier Syrian oktōēchos; whether the latter was, as some assert, a direct outgrowth of the ancient Greek modes remains uncertain, although the concept of mode itself had certainly been handed down from antiquity.

It is still uncertain how many of the museum's priceless gold, silver and copper antiquities, as well as its fabled bronzes and ivories, had been locked away for safekeeping elsewhere before the looting.

Archaeologists remain divided over how museums should acquire and display ancient artefacts of uncertain provenance, for fear that this might encourage looters.A recent twist to the antiquities trade has come with the advent of Internet auction houses such as eBay.

The antiquity stops there, though.

Flutes were ubiquitous in antiquity.

Is modernity our antiquity?