Frag·men·ta·tion
	picks up the pieces

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The study of ancient objects is in many ways the science of putting pieces
together--physically, to reconstruct a whole object out of excavated fragments,
and epistemologically, to construct a coherent story out of the different ways of understanding an object.

Once the pieces of the object--or the story--have been put together, do the seams
show? Should they?

Fragmentation	Fragmentation
Torso of Isis-Aphrodite. Marble. Late 2nd-early 3rd century C.E. Artist unknown. Excavated at Karanis, Egypt, 1925, 1929.	Red-figure Attic amphora. Ceramic. About 475 B.C.E. By the Berlin Painter. Bought on the art market.

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