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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Greek Antiquities to be Returned
From the New York Times:
Getty Museum Agrees to Return Two Antiquities to Greece
After months of international scrutiny of its collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced yesterday that it had agreed to relinquish ownership of two of four rare ancient works that the government of Greece says were illegally removed from within its borders.
The compromise accord, which was initially reached in May at a meeting in Athens between the museum’s director, Michael Brand, and the Greek culture minister, Georgios A. Voulgarakis, provides for the return to Greece of a large stele, or grave marker, acquired by the museum in 1993, and a small marble relief from the island of Thasos bought by the museum’s founder, the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, in 1955.
Posted by Will at July 11, 2006 07:24 AM in In the News