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OCR: Nrm ilnrln Uimra Amphora Follies The Story Behind the Bids by Svlvia DeMornay Today's auction of an ancient Greek Amphora at the Auction House highlights the ways in which value is assi igned to art objects. often for reasons that have little to do with their intrinsic worth The antipathy between the British Museum and the Greek Museum of Antiquities well known and promises bidding war that could escalate the price of the Amphora to record heights. What's more theNew New World Times has learned from reliable sources that the Turkish Museum will aiso be bidding fiercely on the Amphora That may seem strange since the Turkish Museum does not exhibit any Greek art but Curator Abdul Hamid said to relish the thought of making the Greeks pay more purely out of spite allnrll Uimrk Sylvia assigned ...