Renowned Collector Shlomo Moussaieff Dies at 92

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Shlomo Moussaieff of Herzliya, Israel, and London, England, who owned the world’s largest private collection of Near Eastern antiquities, surpassing that of many major museums, died in Israel on June 29, 2015, at the age of 92.

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Footnotes

Hershel Shanks, “Festschrift for Moussaieff,” BAR 29:06.

Hershel Shanks, “The ‘Three Shekels’ and ‘Widow’s Plea’ Ostraca: Real or Fake?” BAR 29:03.

Hershel Shanks, “First Person: Don’t Buy Forgeries,” BAR 25:04.

Hershel Shanks, “Magnificent Obsession: The Private World of an Antiquities Collector,” BAR 22:03.

Endnotes

Robert Deutsch, ed., Shlomo: Studies in Epigraphy, Iconography, History and Archaeology in Honor of Shlomo Moussaieff (Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Archaeological Center Publications, 2003).

Pierre Bordreuil, Felice Israel and Dennis Pardee, “Deux ostraca paléo-hébreux de la collection Sh. Moussaieff,” Semitica 46 (1997), p. 49.