New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art appears to remain silent over the return of (some of the) fragments from the Dietrich von Bothmer collection to Italy.
How did a senior member of its curatorial staff acquire this material? Why has the Met failed to make a statement?
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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