Partage

As a fund division is called the scheme ' half of archaeological finds go to the country that has financed and organized the excavation; the other half remains in the country where the excavation took place. '

Examples

• Henri Seyrig (1895-1973) wrote the the " High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon," on November 7, 1933, adopted Antiquities Act and its implementing regulations ( Réglement sur ​​les Antiques ) and created rules for the division of finds. He also exhibited excavation licenses.

• The Uruk- Warka Collection Heidelberg consists primarily of found objects which passed through division of finds in the 1950s and 1960s at the Oriental Institute of the University of Heidelberg.

• The Torlöwen from Sam'al in the Pergamon Museum (Berlin) have been found in excavations of the Orient Committees 1890/91 and brought to Berlin as part of the then customary division of finds; as well as the bust of Nefertiti.