American Museum Repatriates Bronze Couch to Turkey

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 17:41:19 | Updated at 2024-10-01 04:22:46 4 days ago

American Museum Repatriates Bronze Couch to Turkey
Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 20, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 09/26/2024 10:37:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

ArtNews reports that the J. Paul Getty Museum has repatriated to Turkey a bronze funerary couch dated to 530 B.C. Provenance records suggest that the bed had been in several European collections from the 1920s through the 1980s, when the museum purchased the artifact from an antiquities dealer. However, Gökhan Yazgı of Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism and officials from the Getty Museum confirmed that the records had been falsified by a former owner. Recent research determined that the couch had been illegally excavated in the early 1980s in western Turkey's Manisa region, where Turkish archaeologists have excavated a tomb with similar fabrics, wood, and bronze artifacts. "We seek to continue building a constructive relationship with the Turkish Ministry of Culture," concluded museum director Timothy Potts.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: anatolia; gettymuseum; godsgravesglyphs

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1 posted on 09/26/2024 10:37:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 09/26/2024 10:37:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

where do you put the remote?

3 posted on 09/26/2024 10:38:09 AM PDT by xoxox

To: SunkenCiv

That’ll buff right out...............

4 posted on 09/26/2024 10:39:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)

To: xoxox

Yeah, it kinda sucks. ;^)

5 posted on 09/26/2024 10:39:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

Such a horrible idea to send treasures back to third world countries, especially Moslem countries. All it takes is an ISIS, an Egyptian revolution, etc and it all gets destroyed.

6 posted on 09/26/2024 10:40:54 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )

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