The current location and curatorial display at the British Museum of a Hellenistic bronze head of the goddess Anahita in the guise of Aphrodite, found at Satala (Asia Minor), reveal little of the importance ascribed to it at the time of its acquisition, or of the complex route by which the head came to form part of the museum’s collection. Detailed examination of archival documentation relating to this acquisition shows how, despite nineteenth-century Ottoman and Italian legislation in relation to antiquities, this head and its accompanying bronze hand were found in the province of Armenia, sold by an Ottoman diplomat to a private collector in Rome and used to secure the sale of a collection of jewellery to the British Museum. The journey of the head illustrates the importance of diplomatic channels, the workings of the nineteenth-century European trade in art and antiquities and how museums, diplomats and collectors were able to assemble collections.

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为大英博物馆收购萨塔拉阿芙罗狄蒂头像的文化外交

大英博物馆目前的位置和策展展示了在小亚细亚萨塔拉发现的以阿芙罗狄蒂为幌子的希腊化青铜头像女神安娜希塔，几乎没有显示出它在收购时的重要性，或头部成为博物馆藏品一部分的复杂路线。对与此次收购有关的档案文件的详细审查表明，尽管 19 世纪的奥斯曼和意大利立法对古物进行了处理，但在亚美尼亚省发现了这个头像及其随附的青铜手，并由奥斯曼外交官出售给了私人收藏家罗马并用于确保将珠宝收藏品出售给大英博物馆。元首之旅说明了外交渠道的重要性，