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- adjective Lacking
provenance ; unknown source.
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Examples
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For Cuno, all the recent controversy about collecting "unprovenanced" antiquities-works that do not have a documented place and date of discovery and hence may likely have been looted-is a distraction.
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"unprovenanced" artifacts, and under pressure the art-market countries one by one capitulated to UNESCO.
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To date, U.S. Customs has detained some 23 inexpensive, common, “unprovenanced” ancient Chinese and Cypriot coins properly declared before import from the United Kingdom into the “Port of Baltimore.”
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For purposes of a test case, ACCG imported unprovenanced Cypriot and Chinese coins from the UK.
A Time to Speak Out – Will Ancient Coins from Italy be Restricted? : Coin Collecting News 2010
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He also discusses the naivety of assuming unprovenanced stories can or should be read as history.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus James F. McGrath 2010
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For purposes of a test case, ACCG imported unprovenanced Cypriot and Chinese coins from the UK.
A Time to Speak Out – Will Ancient Coins from Italy be Restricted? : Coin Collecting News 2010
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He might as well have said, "I have never personally claimed that the Mikkelsons are communist baby-killers but my mother forwarded this unprovenanced email and ..."
Checking Snopes James F. McGrath 2009
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Customs has detained some 23 inexpensive, common, “unprovenanced” ancient Chinese and Cypriot coins properly declared before import from the United Kingdom into the “Port of Baltimore.”
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All attested to by an anonymous, unprovenanced work.
Mythicists and Creationists James F. McGrath 2009
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In the 17th-even the early-20th-century, most of the artifacts being passed around museums and personal collections were unprovenanced.
Mythicism and Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009
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