A marbled head of a veiled woman has been returned to Libya after being placed on long-term loan to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1998 ("D.A. Bragg Returns Two Antiquities Valued at Over $500,000 to the People of Libya", Manhattan DA March 30, 2022). It appears that the head had been looted from Cyrene. It is being returned with the head of a bearded man that surfaced through the market in Switzerland.
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Return of antiquities to Türkiye
Source: Manhattan DA Twelve antiquities have been handed over to Türkiye (" D.A. Bragg Returns 12 Antiquities to the Republic of Türkiy...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien...
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In 2009 the Cultural Property Research Institute (CPRI) was launched with a proposed number of projects . In November 2009 the CPRI publishe...
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Thomas Hoving helpfully reminded me of the larger than life-size bronze statue of the Roman emperor Lucius Verus in the Shelby White collec...