The field of cultural property or heritage, as it appears to an outsider, is bedeviled by different, perhaps contradictory fundamental values and structuring metaphors, on one hand, and by large practical problems of enforcement and unintended consequence, on the other. I am an outsider to the field. I was asked to write a report with the hope that I might be able to provide a different perspective precisely because I am not a practitioner. I am taking it on faith that my lack of authority is, for the purposes of this essay, authoritative. I will focus on questions that seem important to me and suggest some answers that seem reasonable to me. I leave it in the hands of the readers to decide whether the exercise serves any purpose for them.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Peter Turner is a doctoral student in Classics at Princeton University.