Antiquities curator Kenneth Lapatin spent much of the pandemic doing detective work on a 200-year-old cold case—a beautiful carved "ancient" amethyst in the Getty collection that turned out to be a modern forgery.
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📷 Amethyst intaglio depicting Mark Antony, 1817–24, Giovanni Calandrelli. Getty Museum
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