The Met Museum returns more looted art to Greece and Turkey, including 15 antiquities seized from disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor:
of 15 antiquities smuggled by disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor, now in jail in India for his crimes.
The $25 million sculpture dates to 225 C.E., and is believed to have been looted in the 1960s from a shine at Bubon, an archaeological site in southwest Turkey. It had been on loan from a collection in Switzerland since 2011. “These pieces, dating to as early as 5,600 B.C.E., represent immense cultural and historical significance,” Homeland Security Investigations New York Special Agent in Charge Ivan J. Arvelo said in aBronze head of the Roman emperor Caracalla . Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Turkey has required the discovery of antiquities be reported to the government since 1906, but looting was common practice among local farmers looking for a secondary source of income in the 1960s.
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