Two of the Gordon McLendon "gifts" of Etruscan amber appear in The J. Paul Getty Museum: Handbook of the Antiquities Collection (2010), pp. 140-41. A third, from an unstated source, also features. The amber kore, so the catalogue helpfully tells us, "was probably designed as a grave-gift".
Perhaps it was removed by illicit means from an Etruscan tomb.
Will the Getty be getting in touch with the Italian authorities?
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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